Picture completed on Tuesday.
Bored & exhausted from the effort – I went into the harbor, and found my vigor & enthusiasm suddenly restored. Hamburg Turnpike (Fuhrmann Blvd.) closed to traffic – Park by Ford plant, and walk down railroad to “Black Iron” Bridges – a fine exciting walk – Study of fading winter sun seen thru the westernmost bridge. [The R.R. worker who gave me a box-end to stand on while painting “Black Iron” came out, and told me he still remembered that painting as a swell picture. I promised him a photograph of it.]
Before coming home I stopped at a lunch wagon for sandwich & coffee – I was chilled thru.
Charles E. Burchfield, January 23, 1940