Program will honor two artists



The local artists spent a week painting landscapes.
SALEM -- The Burchfield Homestead Society will present a program involving two of the area's outstanding artists, Viktor Schreckengost and Charles Burchfield.
A 20-minute videotaped interview with Schreckengost will be shown for the first time at the society's annual meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday in the meeting room at the offices of Atty. Fred Naragon, 248 E. State St.
In the interview, Schreckengost talks about the week he spent painting landscapes with Burchfield.
The tape was made at the society's Burchfield Museum four years ago during Schreckengost's second visit to the museum.
The son of a Sebring potter, Schreckengost enrolled in the Cleveland School of Art, now the Cleveland Institute of Art. This year, over a hundred exhibitions across the United States are showcasing Schreckengost's wide range of works in celebration of his 100th birthday on June 26.
Burchfield moved to Salem as a child and was the 1911 valedictorian at Salem High School. The watercolorist died in 1967.
Dick Wooten, the museum's executive director, said he thinks artists will be especially interested in the tape because Schreckengost explains the unique way Burchfield visualized his subject matter when he was working on a painting.
Wooten said Burchfield's once-popular work is gaining new appreciation.
Also on the tape is Virginia Eckelberry, a designer, who was a student of Schreckengost's at the Cleveland School of Art in the 1930s. She discusses other teachers she had who had also taught Burchfield when he was a student there from 1912 to 1916.
Another speaker will be Youngstown State University art professor and printmaker Jack Carlton, who will discuss his project of placing large reproductions of paintings on the walls of buildings in downtown Youngstown, including two by Burchfield.
Museum curator Janis Yereb will announce the Salem High School art student winners of the annual Burchfield Scholarships.
Admission to the meeting is $10, which pays for a one-year membership to the Burchfield Homestead Society.
Wooten said that at 10:30 p.m. Sunday, PBS Channel 45/49 will air a program, "Charles Burchfield's World."
Visiting hours from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at the Burchfield Museum, 867 E. Fourth St., will resume May 6 and continue through September. Appointments to visit the museum can be made throughout the year by calling (330) 332-8601 a week in advance.

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