"...blue bank of cloud spreads over the western sky...Houses have a strange bizarre appearance, with black shadows under the eaves..."
A fine sun shining day –
Remounting & enlarging some pictures: —
Study of Bertha (1937) reading from 21x22 to 23x33 —
Up-rooted Tree (1920-) from 21x30 to 27x41
Storm over Irondale (1920) from 26x30 to 28x40
March Day at Gowanda (1924) from 23½x26 to 26x36.
I follow a narrow little used road—however, I met a Ford with a family in, & shortly after two truck loads of furniture.—I wondered who was moving today....
A watercolor (16x48) of the transition of Fall to Winter--which I have been dreaming about ever since the Art School Days. A fantasy--it came off very well. The final form came to me as I lay listening to Sunday's concert.
I went back over the road to explore a little lake that I had earlier seen to the north—gleaming a heavenly blue thru colored trees—
The usual period of getting over the effects of an exhibition and a trip: trying to pick up my life here again, and get re-oriented so that I can start painting again.
A black and brown caterpillar by the railroad – a raw wind from the S.W.
"...To go forth into life free of superstition, faith, Christian dogma - to look at nature with an innocent mind - how else can one see its beauty?.."
664 – “Smoke Hazard” from tile works. Announced ahead of time by warning signs, and orders to use lights. The “works” were to the right not far from the road. The smoke came in great billowing masses over the road and actually made “visibility” close to zero for a short space. The fields and trees to the north were blackened and dead.