Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Purple Vetch and Buttercups, 1959; Watercolor over charcoal on white wove paper, 39 13/16 x 29 13/16 inches; The Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, John Lambert Fund Purchase
There is a sinister quality to a hot August wind as it sweeps up over the oat stubble, and moans thru the loose clapboards of an old barn. Tho heat waves are dancing over the hot dry fields, one thinks, paradoxically enough, of winter.
Charles Burchfield, July 31, 1935