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Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection, America’s first museum of modern art, was founded in 1921, in Washington, DC. The museum houses one of the world’s most celebrated Impressionist and American modern art collections, and continues to grow its collection of over 5,000 works with important contemporary voices. Its distinctive building combines extensive new galleries with the former home of its founder, Duncan Phillips. Following Phillips’s unconventional approach to exhibitions, The Phillips Collection galleries are frequently rearranged to facilitate new conversations between artworks and fresh experiences for visitors.
The Phillips’s impact spreads nationally and internationally through its diverse and experimental special exhibitions and events, including its award-winning education programs for educators, students, and adults; renowned Phillips Music series; and dynamic art and wellness and Phillips after 5 events. The museum contributes to global dialogues with events like Conversations with Artists and Artists of Conscience. The Phillips Collection values its community partnership with THEARC—the museum’s satellite campus in Southeast DC. The Phillips Collection is a private, non-government museum, supported primarily by donations
Location
1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, District of Columbia
United States
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<p>This painting is among Burchfield’s earliest paintings, in which he portrayed his hometown and surrounding area with a fresh and responsive eye. The artist reacted deeply to things he knew well, and he attempted to convey more than just a fleeting visual impression of familiar scenes. Like other paintings of this early phase of Burchfield’s career, "Moonlight Over the Arbor" has a direct, uncomplicated innocence. Burchfield created a vertical composition of moonlight that is evocative of a summer night. He emphasized the mood of the scene: its qualities of light, the feel of the season and weather, and even the sense of sound—or silence—that might be associated with his subject. Moonlight Over the Arbor is painted energetically, with an emphasis on pattern and two-dimensional effect that reveals the artist’s knowledge of Japanese art. The only implication of movement, leaves rustling in a light breeze, comes from the foliage’s rhythmical brushwork. All else is still and quiet, as befits a summer night.<br />
– Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.</p>
<p>SKU: 47356<br />Creator: Charles Burchfield<br />Date: 1916<br />Original Medium: Watercolor and gouache over graphite on paper<br />Original Size: 19 1/4 x 13 1/2 in.<br />Location: The Phillips Collection</p>
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