The book includes drawings from his 1917 sketchbook, Conventions for Abstract Thoughts; watercolors from 1916 - 18 that were the focus of the first one - person exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Germany, in 1930; camouflage designs from his tour in the army and
wallpaper designs from the 1920s; watercolors from the 1940s
showing the artist's unique technique of expanding and reworking earlier works by pasting large
strips of paper around them to dramatically increase their size; and finally Burchfield's large, transcendental watercolours from the 1950s and 1960s.
One remarkable room is entirely covered in a Burchfield
wallpaper — a move that points directly to Gober's own politically charged
wallpapers, and
strips the myth of curatorial neutrality that often clings to museum
shows.