Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Song in the Rain, 1947; transparent and opaque watercolor on wove paper, mounted on heavy board, 40 3/8 x 28 1/4 inches; The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Caitlin Sumner Collection Fund, 1957.16
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, July 2, 1949
Friday, Jul 2, 2021
Working on frames–very hot, but dry.
All day the robins on all sides singing madly. Is there truth in the old saying that when they do this they are calling for rain?
Evening– B & I sat in backyard almost ten o’clock.
Something has been eating my petunia plants; unable to find anything in the daytime I concluded they were night–feeders. True enough, Friday night I found five large olive green worms & tonight two more. They eat all the tender new shoots.
Charles E. Burchfield, July 2, 1949