“A Songsparrow tree by a brook” from the folio, SPRING – WIND – FANTASY – MOOD –

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

“A Songsparrow tree by a brook” from the folio, SPRING – WIND – FANTASY – MOOD –

undated

conté crayon on paper

11 x 17 inches

Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006

"Songsparrows are the most common singers now. At any time of the day, cold, rain, or sunshine, their song may be heard. It fills me with intangible yearning. It is an elemental sound and has in it the secret of dripping slate banks, cotton-wood saplings, and the deep mystery of black hollows to the north." — Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, March 30, 1943

[Note that Burchfield always combined the bird’s two names into one.]