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    Safety Valve, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Burchfield, Charles, 1893-1967, painter.
    Title: 
    Safety Valve, (painting).
    Other Titles: 
    Pennsylvania Railroad Yard, Wellsville, Ohio, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1921.
    Medium: 
    Watercolor on paper.
    Dimensions: 
    20 x 30 in.
    Inscription: 
    (Lower right:) C. Burchfield signed
    Description: 
    View looking down toward the edge of a small town where a train engine stopped in a railroad yard lets off a large cloud of steam that drifts across the sky.
    Subject: 
    Landscape -- Ohio -- Wellsville
    Architecture -- Vehicle -- Train
    Architecture exterior -- Industry -- Railroad Yard
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Montross Gallery, New York, New York
    Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York, New York
    Fillin, Walter, Mr. & Mrs., Rockville Centre, New York
    References: 
    "Charles E. Burchfield: Watercolors," New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1974, no. 7.
    "Charles E. Burchfield Watercolors: Visual Music," New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1976, no. 19.
    "Baur, John I.H., "The Inlander: Life and Work of Charles Burchfield, 1893-1971," Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1984, pg. 268.
    "Charles Burchfield: Catalogue of Paintings in Public and Private Collections," Utica, NY: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1970, no. 681.
    "Baur, John I. H., "Charles Burchfield," New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1956, no. 37.
    Illustration: 
    "Charles E. Burchfield: Watercolors," New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1974, no. 7.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 61023726
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