Laura Roberts, Sunburst, 2016, inspired by Burchfield's dark clouds and the sun rays peeking through
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 4, 1929
Wednesday, Apr 4, 2018
Apr. 4 – 1929
I bought a record of the St. Louis Blues (as sung by Mills Serenaders) the other day. It fills me with great satisfaction to be living in an age when such music is being born. As sung...the piece has the feeling of a great human epic. I seem to see a group – a mass of people on the west bank of a great river at dawn – the kind of dawn that precedes a rainy day – on the east bank are long lines of railroad trains freight cars. The people are about to depart on some great emigration.
Charles E. Burchfield