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Startled Sparrow
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: Charles Burchfield
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Bring home Startled Sparrow by Charles Burchfield, a museum quality hand-painted oil reproduction with visible brushwork and a carefully matched palette.
Description
Description
A small bird caught mid-flinch, wings tensed for flight, gives Startled Sparrow its quiet charge of alertness. Charles Burchfield found in this fleeting instant of animal awareness a subject worth the full attention of paint, the kind of small charged moment that recurs throughout his work whenever nature seems to hold its breath.
About Startled Sparrow
The composition builds around that instant of startlement, with the sparrow set against a field of surrounding form that Burchfield handles with the same nervous attentiveness he gives the bird itself. Tonal contrast does much of the work here: passages of concentrated detail around the creature give way to broader, looser handling elsewhere, so the eye is guided rather than instructed. Colour is kept in a restrained key, allowing small shifts in value to carry the visual weight of the scene.
This economy of means belongs to a strain of American painting in which Burchfield worked throughout his career, one that found expressive intensity in ordinary rural and natural subjects rather than in grand historical themes. The brushwork stays visible and somewhat urgent, never smoothed into illustration, and it is this rawness of touch, as much as the subject, that gives the painting its lasting interest under sustained looking.
The hand-painted reproduction
Bringing this painting into a room as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction means returning to the working methods Burchfield himself relied on. A trained painter studies the original palette closely, matching its tonal shifts and its restraint of colour before building the surface in layered oil on artist-grade canvas, brushstroke by brushstroke. The aim is a museum quality reproduction in which the texture of applied pigment, the ridges of impasto, and the slight unevenness of hand-laid colour are all present, not smoothed away or simulated. What arrives is a painted object with its own depth and surface, not a flat printed image standing in for one.
- Hand-painted in oil on canvas by a trained artist
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation on arrival
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Free worldwide shipping, with no shipping charge to any country
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
Empty walls flatten a room. A classical artwork restores structure and visual hierarchy. One painting defines the space, anchors furniture, and establishes identity.
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Worldwide shipping included. Each painting is produced to order and safely packed for international transport.
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Real brushwork, layered oil paint, and durable pigments on museum-quality canvas.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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We ship with UPS, FedEx, or DHL straight to your door. You’ll receive a tracking number as soon as your order leaves our studio. Typical delivery is 5 to 7 days after dispatch; large, framed, or stretched pieces may take longer depending on the safest shipping route.
Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
