Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Rain and Clouds, June 17, 1916; watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down on board, 20 ¼ x 14 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Archives
Charles Burchfield, Journals, September 7, 1916
Friday, Sep 8, 2017
Stepping outdoors tonight to see the moon, flashes of lightning from the north drove the moon from my head. I saw great piles of cold moonlit thunderheads, lit up with rapid flashes from their depths, now being black, now cold white. I went to the fields & in the big wind, & ragged rush of clouds & startled moon, & the clatter of huge raindrops, I felt I was in the dissolving of nature. Yet the sketches I brought home were only puny
Charles Burchfield, September 7, 1916