Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Sunspots, 1951; watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on paper, 25 x 29 7/8 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles Burchfield, Journals, May 4, 1938
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Driving home in the level sunshine, a blissful contentment flowed through me. The newly cultivated fields, broken by bands of bright green verdure, had an Elysian look, or as the world might look after the “Flood” was only a memory, as tho a fieldworker might say to his family: “Remember last year at this time we were on the Ark, and there was nothing but water in all directions?”
Charles Burchfield, May 4, 1938