"...so out to Albright Gallery to get my W.N.Y. exhibits. Celia Schutz & Arthur Rowalski there also. Westphal said the drawing had been sold. Konalski helped me out with the “Hepaticas” –..."
Shortly after noon a special delivery package from the Ferrises – Two paperweights, one large and flat with pressed plants and a butterfly imbedded in the bottom, very beautiful
A.M. exploring the ravine on the west side of the Park, and making studies.
To the wild Valley sketching – A cold windy sky – all morning the blue-jays gave their slinking call as in Autumn – A rain commences & in a short while roofs, & shiny rocks & polished surfaces of logs reflect the sky with greater brilliance.
The large cemetery adjacent to ‘Our Lady of Victory’ Basilica, usually so ugly and depressing, buff of a deep enchanting mystery—the seemingly innumerable grotesque monuments, darkened by years of smoke and grime from the steel mills, seemed not ugly but full of mysterious hauntedness.
From a hilltop, I looked a while to the east, for sheer ecstasy.
A driving cold rain from SE
To the “Big Woods” east of Gowanda, painting. A warm sunshine and shower day, with occasional gusts of wind. How good it was to be out again, to be “going out painting”
"...the railroad track.The town clock strikes in the night— the old dream of the dark silent row of houses—"
After an unsuccessful attempt to park downtown, we went out to Laube’s in Williamsville, and afterwards to Sattler’s