Charles E. Burchfield, Cardinals in Winter, 1917-54, 1917-54; Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Slide 339, 2 x 2 inches; Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of Peggy Richter Haug, 2018
Jan. 21…Started the real work on the “Late Afternoon in Winter”, putting in the warm yellows and browns around the edge to denote the house interior, & all the vivid red birds –…
Jan. 22… Continuously cold weather – close to zero every morning –
More work on the 1917 picture –
P.M. – asked Bertha to look at it – she liked it all except the upper left sky which seemed to her “dirty and incomplete –” it was hard for me to see at first, so intent I was on the problem of its design or pattern only –
Too tired to work on it – I quit for the day & we went food shopping –
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 21-22, 1953