Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Glory of Spring (Radiant Spring), 1950; Watercolor on paper, 40 1/8 x 29 ¾ inches; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, 1959
A Brisk windy morning windy increased, windy day clouds come – flat bottoms + big rolling tops sunlit – black houses up against – Cottonwoods are suddenly massed with long catkins; wave in wind – sunlit – A streaky sky at late afternoon – misty yellow afterglow – Blinding white moon with blue around it
April Moon – brilliant – cold wind from N.W – Poplars cottonwoods Maples in full bloom –
Early Spring Picture – Foreground cool + dk snow patches – middle ground in big marshy valley with orange sunlit trees – distance a big tree covered hill in a haze –
Charles Burchfield, April 17, 1916