1961
conte crayon on paper
10 x 17 inches (Frame: 17 3/4 x 24 1/2 inches)
Gift of Virginia Cuthbert Elliot, 1994
On the back of this drawing Burchfield wrote that this was “an ‘idea’ note, made for a large water-color still in progress.” Warm, yellow-rimmed wind currents coat a massive tree trunk, as well as touseled wildflowers and a field of dried grasses in his 1963 watercolor, also called September Wind. — Nancy Weekly