Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Study of head of wheat, 1917; graphite on paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches; Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006
To Springville Country for studies of maple trees for my July picture - A row of grand old maples extending from the Genesee Sibley Road junction southward for several miles. Sometimes on both sides of the road, but mainly along the east. What a wonderful foresight the person or persons who years ago planted these trees had!
After I had secured the studies I wished, I set out to find some wheat fields, for I felt it was more important to get these, than the maples, as wheat was ripening fast - Curiously there was no wheat at all, in this country. So east and northwards towards East Aurora. I was not until I reached the outskirts of this town that I found any wheat.
Balance of the afternoon spent in a futile search for the right kind of field, in the country between Marilla and Cowlesville.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, July 8, 1942