Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Overhanging Cloud in July, 1947-59; watercolor on paper, 39 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches; Whitney Museum of American Art
How the hot noon sun pours down on the glaring crimson roses. A heat withered leaf falling in a sunhazed forest – Stars zigzagging above the lightning-lit horizon with its jagged border of black trees – Poplars dying in the noon heat-haze –
July 6, 1916