# Hillside

- By: Charles Burchfield (American, 1893–1967)
- Date: May 24, 1917
- Medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor on Strathmore wove paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Culture: America
- Credit line: The Mary Spedding Milliken Memorial Collection, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1951.432)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.432/1951.432_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Burchfield was especially drawn to watercolor and experimented avidly with it throughout his entire career. This portable medium allowed him to explore the landscape and continuously rework his compositions. Here, he used shades of green to depict the countryside near his hometown, Salem, Ohio.