NEW YORK, NY.- D’Amelio Terras presents an exhibition of 17 early graphite drawings by revered American master Charles Burchfield (1893-1967). Burchfield is currently the subject of a major exhibition curated by artist Robert Gober at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. The exhibition, Heat Waves in A Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, travels to the to The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from June 24 through September of 2010. Historically, Burchfield has long been associated with large-scale, fantastical watercolor depictions of the American landscape. This exhibition will focus on the artist’s graphite drawings from 1915 through 1950. More intimate in scale, Burchfield’s drawings suggest a complex state of mind as mundane forms take on sinister characteristics: dark shadows dominate the roofline, windows, and doorways of houses;