ca. 1960-66
conté crayon on paper
11 x 13 inches (frame: 19 1/2 x 22 5/8 inches)
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Dr. Edna M. Lindemann, 1968
Ideas to develop in the painting White Wings of September (c. 1960-66) included a flock of starlings dispersed among clouds blown into enormous wings, “clouds modeled as delicately as the breast of a dove,” a tree’s “black spirit motif” deflecting the swiftly moving north wind, tiger swallowtail and monarch butterflies, a yellow garden spider and its central zigzag web detail, wild asters and goldenrod, and everything’s edges rimmed with golden sunlight. —Nancy Weekly