Martha Elizabeth Burchfield Richter

Martha Elizabeth Burchfield Richter (June 28, 1924 – April 10, 1977) was an American watercolorist, the daughter of artiste Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967). Similarly to her father, Burchfield had an affinity for flowering plants, trees and landscapes. She painted approximately exclusively as soon as watercolors and is known for her depictions of flora and fauna throughout the seasons, and landscapes of rural America. She is known by the satisfactory signature "M. Burchfield" on whatever her paintings. Including those painted after the fiddle with of her surname taking into account her marriage in 1946 to Henry Richter.

Her paintings and drawings can be found in the Smithsonian, Ford Motor Company, SUNY Buffalo State, and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center. She has been the subject of exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art, the Sisti Gallery in Buffalo, Central Park Gallery in Buffalo and the Buffalo Garret Club. She has after that had solo exhibits in cities roughly American including Detroit, Salem and Youngstown.

The largest gathering of Burchfield's paintings and studies are in the personal stock of Louise Simon Schoene of West Seneca, New York. Schoene owns the copyright to whatever of Richter's works and is organizing an exhibit of Burchfield's paintings as share of a three-generational Burchfield exhibition scheduled for April 2017 at the Kenan Center in Lockport, New York.

Additionally, Schoene loaned seven of Burchfield's paintings to the producers of the feature-length movie Marshall, a biography of Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, which was filmed in Buffalo in summer 2016.