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| | CHARLES EPHRAIM BURCHFIELD 1893 |
 | | After graduation from high school, he attended the Cleveland School of Art (1912-16), intending to become an illustrator, but while there decided to be a painter. |
 | | Describing teaching as a "major disturbance," he nonetheless taught a special class at the Art Institute of Buffalo and continued to serve as a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome, Italy.8 Teaching, though disturbing, gave him the income he needed to produce his much admired later works. |
 | | The blend of realism and conventionalized fantasy is a compromise and they lose power for that reason." September Wind and Rain has all the power he desired in its suggestive fl lines and shapes, contrasting with patches of white, gray, blue, green and yellow, the echoing shapes symbolizing as much as representing wind and rain. |
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