Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Winter Moonlight, 1951; Watercolor on paper, 40 x 33 inches; Wichita Art Museum, The Roland P. Murdock Collection
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 27, 1917
Friday, Jan 27, 2017
Thinking of an artist who yearns to compose wonderful music, yet what he sees with his eyes is the overwhelming instinct – he fancies himself blinded by some accident which causes him to turn perforce to music – he almost covets such a circumstance. As I came home tonight over the country road in the damp dusk I heard such music in my mind, as he might compose.
Charles E. Burchfield, January 27, 1917