Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Flaming Orange Northern Sky at Sunset/V-4, July, 16, 1915; watercolor and grahite on paper, 11 x 17 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006
Noon split the clouds, revealing a blue-green west.
The clouds have thunderish shapes. They seem painted to the sky.
The choked-up sunshine fell in a torrent of some glittering poplars - marking the end of the dark.
A fine sunset - a clump of red-purple clouds, edges quivered with fire-gold. Odd how they seemed to stay there, tho (sic) I marked how still the air was - web hazed trees motionless; a bright blue haze - even near things are blue - sticking to the air, holding it prisoner. A cold odor; leaf cluttered streets; in the east a bank of plum clouds tops majestically yellowed, swift-shrinking flock-twinkles of blackbirds.
Charles E Burchfield, Sept. 24, 1914.