Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Clearing After a Snowstorm, March 4, 1917; watercolor and pencil on joined paper laid down on board, 20½ x 31½ inches, Image from the Burchfield Penney Archives.
Noon – Brill air – cool wind – March sky with its three kinds of clouds – white scuds clouds, pale blue mackerel, + vivid white blending edged flat masses – The scud clouds move swiftly the others seem motionless + miles away like looking into a deep clear lake – The earth is strangely blue – The sunlit places are cold white, the shadows blue – a sort of elusive blue haze – house roofs glitter white – as if we were on the edge of a lake –
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, March 28, 1917