Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Decorative Landscape, Shadow (Willows on Vine Street; Shadow), September 23, 1916, transparent watercolor and graphite on white paper, 19-7/8 x 13-7/8 inches, Munson Museum of Art, Edward W. Root Bequest, 57.95
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, undated entry between May 20 and May 27, 1923
Saturday, May 27, 2023
To be a strong courageous healthy spirit — delighting in the natural world, seeing it with the innocence of a child to whom each commonplace stone, blade of grass & sapling is a miracle. That is the secret of eternal youth, the secret that Beethoven had. Happy is the man who can go out into the fields & woods and hills, a free innocent being, unburdened by the world’s smartness & sophistication, its smug acceptance of fleshly indulgences, to whom life & nature are eternal mysteries.
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, undated entry between May 20 and May 27, 1923