related to Charles E. Burchfield , Charles and Bertha Burchfield at Niagara Falls, c. 1960-62; color photograph by Peggy Richter; color photograph, 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. mounted on black paper board, 11 x 14 in., 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. mounted on black paper board, 11 x 14 in.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Volume. 48, May 20, 1947
Saturday, Feb 15, 2014
Niagara Falls about sun-down. Stop to view American Falls, and also Horse-Shoe. The latter for me are the most impressive — the sun lighting just the brink of the falls, a beautiful fragment of rainbow; the color of the crater ran a whole gamut of infinite tones from rich yellow olive in the middle, (where it was sunlit) to cool blue greens close at hand in shadow. We were struck with the slowness of the water as it poured over (probably only apparently so). It seemed almost like a slow motion movie. Great clouds of pure white mist. B said very aptly that the “boiling” water at the foot of the falls was like maple sap boiling.
Charles E. Burchfield, May 20, 1947