Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), August Evening, 1916; watercolor and graphite pencil on paper, 19 15/16 × 14 inches; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lesley G. Sheafer
Charles Burchfield, Journals, August 11, 1933
Friday, Aug 7, 2015
A path grows more interesting in August; more worn and used-looking, and the bleached grasses fringing its borders gives (sic) it an ancient look.
Evening – with children up to the dam and beyond on other side of creek. Half-grown boys and one or two men swimming and diving by the dam. In what is ordinarily a little bay off the stream (now dry with white mud-covered pebbles, jig-saw puzzle flakes of mud, and a host of dead snails) the children find a giant fallen poplar tree which delights them.
Charles Burchfield, August 11, 1933