Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Black Tree and Setting Sun, ca. 1917; gouache, watercolor and graphite on paper, 20 x 14 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, March 17, 1915
Monday, Mar 18, 2013
Noon is powerful - wind-whirled clouds dancing across the morning sun, edges quivering with March fire; Trees turned black, jutting upwards from their own wriggly shadows on the grass; The sunlight and sky was [sic] so intense that I seemed conscious pf a noise going on outside as of a weird singing shriek.
Charles Burchfield, March 17, 1915