Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), October Wind and Sunlight in the Woods, c. 1963-1966; watercolor chalk, and charcoal on joined paper, 40 x 54 inches (sight); Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, University Purchase: 68.1
Charles Burchfield, Journals, October 21, 1914
Friday, Oct 21, 2022
The third of wonderfully fair October days. My heart seems ever on the point of bursting with the beauty of this autumn. It is a golden age. All my thoughts seemed touched with the golden atmosphere. Such an autumn is rare.
This morning in life. I happened to the window – mid-morning sunlight wonderful - on the yellow thickly hazed trees - sky brown with low-hanging smoke - blue wind jarring the softly detached elm leaves in yellow shower. - Emerald lawns leaf speckled.
Corot created his morning scenes - but this morning the sun shining through the willows in Wade Park surpassed even his wildest imagination. Grass silvery with heavy dew. At any time during the day to look thru any tree at the sun produces wonderful morning haze effects. There is such a stillness on the air; the only evidence that nature is breathing are the soft leaves falling slantwise.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, October 21, 1914