Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Sun and Rocks, 1918-50; watercolor on gouache on joined paper mounted on board, 40 x 56 inches (Enlarged from Song of the Peterbird, 1918, 26 x 19 inches); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Room of Contemporary Art Fund, 1953
[Burchfield bracketed this excerpt with red pencil.]
After lunch which B & I had alone (the children having taken their lunches on account of the weather) I played, in the house, the Sibelius 4th — I realized anew that it is not only Sibelius’ top achievement, but the summit of all musical art, after Beethoven. Many years will pass before the full significance of it will be realized.
--Charles E. Burchfield, March 2, 1941