
House of Mystery
Catalogue
- Year
- 1924
- Dimensions
- 73.9 × 59.6 cm (29 1/8 × 23 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist

Painting
Charles Ephraim Burchfield was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. The largest collection of Burchfield's paintings, archives and journals are in the collection of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo. His paintings are in the collections of more than 109 museums in the USA and have been the subject of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, as well as other prominent institutions.
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More by Charles Ephraim Burchfield
Midsummer in the Alleghenies
1955 · Watercolor and brush and black ink, with black and brown Conté crayon, on off-white wove paper, laid down on white wove paper
Autumn Wind
1952 · Lithograph on off-white wove paper
Crows in March
1951 · Lithograph on cream wove paper
Autumnal Storm
1948 · Watercolor and gouache on ivory wove paper
Two Fence Posts
1937 · Watercolor, with gouache and traces of charcoal on cream wove paper, laid down on gray wood-pulp laminate board
Snowstorm in the Woods
1917 · Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1924
- Dimensions
- 73.9 × 59.6 cm (29 1/8 × 23 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1924-131265
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




