Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Study for Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night, 1917; watercolor and pencil on paper, 10 7/8 x 8 15/16 in.; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006
Cold damp morning.
The blue jay’s clanking call.
Parrot-like grotesque of Baptist Church–
Poplars bristle upward.
An organ playing; the first time reminds of romantic pioneer days in Ohio. Next, The Church in the “Dell,” a lively remote house in a dense wood at dusk, beyond the house the deep black recess in the woods.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, November 16, 1917