The Life of the Spirit Is Elevated by Pain, 1943
Oil on canvas, Canvas: 60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm), Frame: 69 x 50 1/2 in. (175.26 x 128.27 cm)

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Lantz, Lancaster, Ohio (acquired from the artist c. 1950)
John & Susan Horseman Collection, 2012 

Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art, "Contemporary American Painting', 1945.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio, "36th Annual Exhibition", 1946.
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, "New Year Show", 1947.
Columbus Museum of Art, "Paintings by Emerson Burkhart", 1971.

Publications

"45th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting". New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1946, n.p., cat. no. 20.
Columbus Gallery of Fine Art Monthly Bulletin. Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, 1946, vol. 16, no. 8, n.p., cat. no. 7..
"Twelfth Annual New Year Show". Youngstown, OH: The Butler Institute, 1947, n.p., cat. no. 10.
"Paintings by Emerson Burkhart". Columbus, OH: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1971, n.p., cat. no. 39.
Hall, Michael. "Emerson Burkhart: An Ohio Painter's Song of Himself". London: Scala Publishers, 2009, p. 86, illustrated.