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
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, September 24, 1914
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2019
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.