Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Late Winter Dawn, 1956-65; watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on joined paper mounted on board, 49 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches; The Spiro Collection, Courtesy of Debra Force Fine Art, New York
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 -
What a wonderful thing that an expected season never fails us – this midwinter spring, so fleeting and elusive, that we fear another year will not bring it – yet it always comes.
Charles E. Burchfield, January 10, 1920