The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, 1997, Hard Cover, Near Fine

Maciejunes, Nannette V. & Michael D. Hall. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997. 

English, First Edition, Near Fine, Hard Cover, 4to, 9” x 11 ¾,” 278 pp.

Gray woven cloth over boards, orange stamped image of Burchfield’s signature to front, orange stamped titling to spine, full-color image across pastedowns and endpapers, in publisher’s dust jacket with full-color images front and back, black and orange text to front, spine, and inner flaps. Very minor edgewear, store sticker at frontis, otherwise tightly bound, clean throughout, and excellent. In a Very Good dust jacket. Mild scratching to front and back, minor pressure indentations to front and back, mild edgewear, mild soiling to front inner flap, otherwise excellent. 278 pp. Replete with 255 illustrations, including 153 full-color plates. In association with the Columbus Museum of Art to accompany an exhibition. A display of some of the American painter’s most well-known works introduced by descriptive essays. From the dust jacket: “...this book traces Burchfield’s life and work through scores of his paintings, which are organized thematically, rather than chronologically, to encourage the reader to see Burchfield’s oeuvre anew.”