Somehow we got onto the subject of press-notices and Gene told us about his first notice. He was working as a bundle wrapper for Browning King & Co. in Buffalo – He sent a picture to the Art Gallery where it was exhibited – Headline in the paper ‘Clothing Misfit succeeds in Art” – So I told the remark [erased and covered with ???] once made about my work ‘Burchfield is only Hopper on a rainy day’ –"
Charles Burchfield, March 10, 1954