– the camera, when it comes to inventive fantasy, can never compete with the artist.
P.M. – got out the “Drought Sun” to study it. The left side seems weak –...Aug 22- Friday- / P.M – worked on the ‘Drought Sun” strengthening it in many places –
I never was at such disharmony with my surroundings – The mingling with the vulgarity at the office maddens me –
Morse from N.Y. to make a tape-recording of an interview with me for the Archives of American Art.
While looking at my 1920 picture of Irondale, I felt I had the germ there of a...more important picture; and I suddenly was obsessed by the desire to look again from the hill where I made the study.
A grey moist morning in which the oriole’s buoyant songs predominate. It was like sunshine roaring in a garden.
"It is useless to write to a friend unless inspired on thinking of him..."
I stopped at the high embankment (18 miles before camp.) where I ate my lunch on the previous trip) for today’s meal. After – wards I made a study of a house of part of the hill to the west, but I did not accomplish much.
P.M. – In studio, working on “August Twilight” (the one inspired by my boyhood memories of evenings at our step-grandmother’s place in the country south of (Minerva, Ohio)...
To Youngstown by Automobile at Dusk – Orange afterglow in west – The steady chorus of katydids along the dark road –