Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Dawn in Hemlock Woods, 1946-61; watercolor on paper, 39 x 60 inches; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
All day on “Hemlock Woods”—my chief interest and pleasure was putting in the dead leaves in the foreground. As soon as all the additions are filled in, new problems arise.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 23, 1939