Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Autumn Twilight, 1920; watercolor, charcoal and pencil on paper laid down on board, 16 3/8 x 21 7/8 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles Burchfield, Journals, August 14, 1961
Sunday, Aug 14, 2022
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 even since I “brushed” 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 Burchfield, Journals, August 14, 1961