Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Dream House, undated; watercolor on paper, 18 x 22 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Archives
It is difficult to separate actual boyhood impressions from the visions called up by the stories I read as a boy. Thus, I am never quite sure whether some of the memories of woodland rambles in luxuriant late June & early July are actually mine or those of Bevis & Mark.
Charles Burchfield, June 30, 1932
As a child Burchfield read works by English writer on rural life, Richard Jefferies (1848-1887), including Bevis (1882) and Wood Magic (1881). - J. Benjamin Townsend