Charles E. Burchfield, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES RE: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, Autobiographical Manuscript, c. 1939-1955; Burchfield Penney Art Center, The Charles E. Burchfield Archives, purchased with funds from the Vogt Family Foundation in honor of Dr. Edna M. Lindemann, 2004
Charles E. Burchfield, BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES RE: CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH, c. 1939-55
Saturday, Jun 8, 2013
SALEM MEMORIES
June 8 – 1902
Repairs going on at our house. Short pieces of clapboards lying about.
Two other boys with me – one older. I draw a picture of our house and shed. This led us to taking a few pieces of the wood with us and going elsewhere to draw. We stopped on Vine Street at an alley just below High St. There followed an argument as to how the house should be drawn. I said thus:
While the older boy said this way
He was drawing what was there, while I was drawing just what could be seen.
Charles E. Burchfield, c. 1939-55