Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

109. our life in the 3^rd floor apartment – of the sandwiches Bertha used to fix for my sketching traps –

3^rd movement – never went deep for me except at the end-

4^th movement – a momentous feat of transfiguration of a motive – with echoes of the sullenness of the 1^st movement – the sudden brassy assertion of the triumphal motive is always thrilling & new to me – a grandeur that is one of the great moments in music for me –

January 10, 1936-

Freedom – the joy of closing one’s eyes and seeing visions of raw hillsides, beyond a mean street and feeling the impulse to paint this boldly, exuberantly with the mind of a creator, caring not about the result – this is freedom.