Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Haunted Twilight, 1954-62; watercolor and charcoal on paper, 32 3/8 x 39 1/8 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Charles Rand Penney, 1994
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, August 14, 1958
Saturday, Aug 14, 2021
P.M. – In studio, working on “August Twilight” (the one inspired by my boyhood memories of evenings at our step-grandmother’s place in the country south of (Minerva, Ohio) — The original aim in doing this picture was to achieve an eerie haunted effect – and ever since I “finished” it last year, it has bothered me that such an effect was not in it. I tried today to inject such a feeling without success, so that at the end I felt irritated and frustrated.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, August 14, 1958