Burchfield Family History & Genealogy

Elizabeth (Liz) Burchfield was born to Clara Marie Burchfield and Byrd Burchfield, and has siblings Robert E. Burchfield, Lamar Burchfield, Donna Burchfield, Sue Burchfield, and Gloria Gail Burchfield. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Elizabeth (Liz) Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Byrd Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Clara Marie Burchfield.

John BIRCHFIELD was b. 9 Jul 1896 in Ashtabula or Eagle, OH to either: parents Rev. James Reade BURCHFIELD (1834-1896) and Orinda Mary PUTNAM (1850-1896) married 28 Nov 1889 in Medina Co., OH. John was one of 7 children born to this couple including Kate Elizabeth; William “Willie” Charles; Jennie “Jean”; Brad; Neal Dow; Baby Girl; Baby Boy; and John Russell BURCHFIELD or parents Lewis Putnum BIRCHFIELD (b. 1876) and Mae Orinda PUTNAM (1869-1832). John was the only child born to this couple. His mother was married a second time and had two additional sons, C. Hugh WILLIAMS (b. 1904) and Clarence Holden WILLIAMS (1904-1988). John married Rose Adeline or Christine LUNDQUIST or DUTKA on 7 Nov 1918 in Manhattan, NY and they had three children including John Russell BIRCHFIELD III (1922-2015) and Lewis Putnam BIRCHFIELD (1923-2001) and Jacqueline R. BIRCHFIELD (1834-1999). John died 13 Nov 1964 in Cleveland, OH and is buried in the Lakewood Park Cemetery in Rocky River, OH. Lots of conflicting information on this family, though I would still like to find a family member and get the photograph back to the care of family. If you are a member of this family or know someone who might be, please contact me.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert E (Eddie) Burchfield.

Anise Mae (Burchfield) Rindy of Beloit, Rock County, WI was born on September 22, 1905, and died at age 87 years old on November 1, 1992.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lamar Burchfield.

William E Burchfield of Blount County, Tennessee United States was born circa 1920. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember William E Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Margo Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember David Burchfield.

Robert E Burchfield of Harrison County, TX was born in May 1935 in Smackover, Union County, Arkansas United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert E. Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Terry Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Amber Taylor (Burchfield).

Charles Burchfield One of the most innovative artists of the 20th century, Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) continues to intrigue and inform the contemporary art world. His intensely personal, spiritualized view of the world resonates with artists who work in a variety of media, and his deeply felt, almost mystical sensibility has inspired curators and artists to revisit and reassess his many accomplishments. In 2009 Robert Gober organized a major retrospective for the Hammer Museum which traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, in 1893, Charles Burchfield grew up in the small town of Salem, in central Ohio. During his youth, he spent countless hours in the nearby woods, developing a deep and life-long empathy for the natural world. In 1912, he enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art, graduating four years later. While there, he was introduced to major trends in European and American modernism, as well as Chinese and Japanese art, and contemporary design theory. His early work included modernist views of Salem and the surrounding countryside, along with imaginative landscapes grounded in a personal visual language of fantasy. Around 1920, he adopted a more realist approach grounded in the austere imagery of industrial development, and the local architecture of Midwestern cities and towns. In 1921, Burchfield moved to Buffalo, New York, to work as a wallpaper designer for the H. M. Birge Company. He married and started a family, eventually raising four daughters and a son. Around this time, he began to receive critical acclaim for his focus on what he once called the “great epic poetry of American life.” He had several exhibitions at the Montross Gallery in New York starting in 1924. Burchfield gained major national recognition in 1930, when the newly formed Museum of Modern Art organized an exhibition of his early work. It was the first single-artist exhibition held at the museum. A year earlier he had joined the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York, which continued to represent him for the rest of his life. In the early 1940s, Burchfield returned to a bolder, more expressive approach. He was initially inspired to develop what he called “reconstructions” or “two-period pictures,” composites of smaller, early works, mainly from 1917 and 1918, which he enlarged with strips of paper to create grander, more complex compositions. Much of his later work reveals two complementary sides of his artistic personality—from exuberant views of sunlit fields and atmospheric skies to more introspective meditations on the profound depths of nature. By the early 1960s, his paintings were increasingly dreamlike. He continued to paint with his full creative powers until the end of his life. His final exhibition at the Rehn Galleries was in October 1966, three months before he died. Charles Burchfield has been the focus of numerous museum exhibitions, including an exhibition of early watercolors at the Museum of Modern Art in 1930, and retrospectives at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo in 1944, the Whitney Museum of American in 1956, 1980 and 2002, the University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson in 1965, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1990, and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio in 1997. The latter exhibition, titled The Paintings of Charles Burchfield: North by Midwest, traveled to the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. and was accompanied by a monograph by Nannette Maciejunes and Michael Hall. Burchfield’s work is represented in every major collection of American art in this country.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Viola (Barnes) Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sue Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Stacey Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Burchfield.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Donna Burchfield.

Sam Burchfield of Greenville, Washington County, MS was born on February 23, 1889, and died at age 86 years old on November 12, 1975. Sam Burchfield was buried in Drew, Sunflower County.