Charles Burchfield (1893 – 1967) was an American artist who preferred to work in watercolors and at varying points in his career created uniquely intense nature studies. 1917 was one of his most prolific years with an output that included the pictured Summer Morning, from the Midwest Museum of American Art. Charles also designed wallpaper in Buffalo as a day job for a while, and he later expressed his firm opinion that Pablo Picasso was the "evil genius of modern art" who "wittingly or unwittingly, brought about a decadence that is really terrible to behold."
