Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), In the Swamp, July 1917; gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper, 22 x 18 inches (sight); Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
I saw the first sliver of this (July-Aug) moon sitting in a boat at Turkeyfoot Lake in the death calm dusk,— above some phantom blue thunderheads —; the last sliver I saw at first light, after a night’s trip from Cleveland.
Charles E. Burchfield, August 13, 1917