Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Midsummer Afternoon, 1952; watercolor and charcoal on paper, 40 x 29 3/4 inches; Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, Museum Purchase with Funds provided by the Athena Society, 2008
Charles Burchfield, Journals, August 28, 1952
Sunday, Aug 28, 2016
Aug. 28 – Thursday –
Hot “boiling day” –
A.M. – Fussed all morning in the studio, making notes from my 1917 “Conventions” books of insects, etc.
P.M. – Dropped everything to do a water-color of the view west of us. With goldenrod and insect conventions prominent in the foreground.
Evening to Abbott to see “Paula” (Loretta Young, Alexander Knox, Kent Smith) – a fine “human” drama – and “Red Snow” – a mawkish improbable tale of an Alaskan Russian frontier of the present time – saved somewhat by the “acting” of snow + ice, polar bears, and Eskimos.
Charles Burchfield, Journals, August 28, 1952