Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), The Blizzard (The White North Wind), 1918-1945-1963; watercolor and gouache on joined paper, 36 x 54 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Volume 46, February 3, 1945
Monday, Feb 3, 2014
The recurrent blizzards and storms of this winter have filled me with the impulse to paint a blizzard. As the starting point ... for this, I am using the 1918 “Blizzard” (two ghostly windblown houses about to be engulfed by a white monster of a cloud) which I have enlarged from 18 x 27 to 36 x 54.
Charles E. Burchfield, February 3, 1945