Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Cardinal Flowers, 1946; watercolor on paper, 27 x 35 1/2 inches; Private Collection, Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles Burchfield, Journals, July 17, 1946
Sunday, Jul 17, 2016
July 17, (Wed.)
Finish work on studio wood – a good feeling it is done.
Cut + did preliminary work – on wood for reconstructed Dutchman’s Creek picture – (from 22 x 18 to 48 x 42)
Evening – the dragon-fly sunning itself on the lattice (the kind with chalk-white body and black wings with white polka-dots). It’s long body contracting and expanding laterally, as if it were breathing (and it was).
Charles Burchfield, Journals, July 17, 1946