June 3, 1914
graphite pencil on commercially-made lined paper
5 7/8 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
him to fly out but I can get no view of him. Flies ahead of me down the road but I am unable to get near him. Finally disappears.See what I think is indigo bird. It flies away in the wind over a wheat-field.See “puzzler” again. A bird slightly smaller than robin.- Breast, throat and undertail white, back light olive brown.Beauty of mists in Dutchman’s Cigar mountain blue. Just curling edges of trees visible as struck by sun’s rays. Looking directly towards sun, the trees seem like Sheets of variously tinted green paper set one behind the other.