A Dash of Rain From the Sky

Skip to main content
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photograph by Jo…
A Dash of Rain From the Sky
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photograph by John Bentham. For educational purposes only.
Artist/Maker (American, 1893 - 1967)
Date1916
MediumWatercolor and pencil on paper
DimensionsSheet: 13 15/16 × 19 15/16 in. (35.4 × 50.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of D. Roger Howlett, Class of 1966
Object number2020.11.2
Not on view

Additional Details

Provenance 2020: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by gift of D. Roger Howlett;
1987: D. Roger Howlett, by purchase at auction from Christie's New York.
Markings No markings noted.
Published References Joseph S. Trovato, CHARLES BURCHFIELD: CATALOGUE OF PAINTINGS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970), p.44, not illustrated.
Signature Signed and dated "CE Burchfield / 1916" at lower right in pencil.
Inscribed "Blue grey" at upper left in pencil;
"lt grey" at upper left in pencil;
"dk Blu" at upper center in pencil;
"Pale green" at lower right center in pencil;
"lt blu gl[u]" at lower right center in pencil;
"6-17-1916" on verso at lower right in pencil.

Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Spring Rain
Charles E. Burchfield
Date: April 1, 1916
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2016.1.2
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photo by John Be…
3AM
Charles E. Burchfield
Date: 1951
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 2021.13
Photograph by John Bentham.
Blackbirds
Charles E. Burchfield
Date: March 1916
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
Object number: 2016.1.1
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College. Photograph by Da…
Crows in March
Charles E. Burchfield
Date: 1951
Medium: Lithograph
Object number: 1983.1
Photography by David Revette.
Harbor – Roscoff
e e cummings
Date: unknown
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1985.9
Wreck of the Rettisoe. 2nd and 3rd Boccas, Trinidad.—Boccas Islands, Trinidad
Wreck of the Rettisoe. 2nd and 3rd Boccas, Trinidad.—Boccas Islands, Trinidad
Capt. F. E. Coleridge
Date: [1850?]
Medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.4
Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe
Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe
A. E. R.
Date: 1842
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.17
Portrait of Katherine Regina
Portrait of Katherine Regina
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: August 1910
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.24
H. M. S. Pallas. saluting the Governor. at Grenada
H. M. S. Pallas. saluting the Governor. at Grenada
W. Mainwaring
Date: 1820
Medium: Pencil and watercolor on paper
Object number: 1971.29
Black Marble Font, Preschute, Marlborough
Black Marble Font, Preschute, Marlborough
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: July 1912
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.68
Camber Castle, Rye
Camber Castle, Rye
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: September 1908
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.55
Cerne Abbas
Cerne Abbas
Dorothy Shakespear
Date: August 1908
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Object number: 2001.4.52