Charles Burchfield

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893–1967) was an American painter, best known for his watercolor landscapes. Burchfield was born April 9, 1893, in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio. Five years later, his family moved to Salem, Ohio, where he graduated from high school as class valedictorian in 1911. He attended the Cleveland School of Art from 1912 to 1916 and studied with Henry G. Keller, Frank N. Wilcox, and William J. Eastman.