Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Skeletons (Rack of Bones), 1920-21; watercolor on paper, 20 x 26 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 10, 1920
Monday, Jan 12, 2015
The “January Spring” with its exciting afterglows and smoking chimneys and wide-roaming trains has come and gone and now the earth is shut in by a low dark sky; the trees heavily coated with ice stand like gigantic feathers and crackle in the wind – all horizons are an ominous dark gray -–
Charles E. Burchfield, January 10, 1920