Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Nasturtiums and Barn (also known as Petunias at Twilight), 1917; watercolor on paper, 21 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches; Ex Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Jameson, Image courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Archives
Charles Burchfield, Journals, July 23, 1914
Friday, Jul 20, 2018
Locusts become musical at twilight. To how few people is the metallic rasp of a locust music. It and kindred sounds i.e. such has have no delicacy of sound nor musical rhythm, as the caw of a crow, the "yipe" of a skeitpoke or the blung of a frog are classed by a certain kind of uninterested people as harsh and discordant and not to be reckoned among nature's beauties, forgetting that nothing in nature is ugly...
Charles Burchfield, July 23, 1914