Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Rain, Clearup & Sunburst & Wind Starts to Blow/V, July 11, 1915; graphite on paper, 11 x 17 inches; Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006
There was a wind today! It was my ideal wind - not a steady rush of air, but a spasmodic or spontaneous outbursts, in great swooping circles. - I could watch its course in the frantic tree- branches. I spent an hour or so carrying out the ashes from the furnace - and thus I got the wind anew at each trip. The sky was wierd (sic)- it was light at the horizon, against which glittered the trees, the small sky areas sparkling like stars thru the network of branches; and black at the zenith.
The wind invited to a fields ramble. But I was held at home by various duties.
The snow is coated with brilliant layer of ice.
Charles E. Burchfield, December 21, 1914