Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

108. has vision. Today a flock of white pigeons flew up from Hess black shed, and wheeling around a few times in the air, disappeared into the sky: They were just as beautiful here as they would have been, say in India or Scandinavia – more so, because back (sic) of their flight was the fabric of my daily life.

January 5, 1936-

P.M. All of us to Albright Gallery to see exhibition “Art of Today – in which I find my “Black Iron,” “Rainy Night” “The Alley” & the “Lace Gables” –

     Met there Ross, Rowe, Sister & a few others –

January 6, 1936 –

     Played Tochaikosky’s (sic)(Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) 5^th Symph. 1^st movement - a sullen summary of world misery ending in a sinking despair that goes down in to the earth- 2 – 2^nd movement – commiseration for human sorrow - it brought back to me, the Saturdays & Sundays at the Harbor when we lived at 459 Franklin- of the harsh wild life there, and of