July 25, 1914 - Aug. 02, 1914
graphite on lined paper
5-3/4 x 3-11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
A2000.001.017.011
[inscription reads] " world. All things become saturated with yellow light even our thoughts. And so I sit in the saffron air, climbing the heights. At times I read slowly from Thoreau’s Walden. I bless the chance that sent the book into my hands. It had always been my intention to read it, but like most good resolutions, it was put off. From reading it, the doubts that have assailed me i.e. whether a spiritual life was to be preferred to a sensual existence, and whether to work for money, or for the love of my work – were banished "