August 8, 1914
graphite pencil on commercially-made lined paper
5 13/16 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
round two rocks whose tops are above water.(HT)A line of shooting bubbles up creek attracts my eye. They prove to be the rapids which marks the convergance of two small rocky rills. The line of bubbles proceeds in a straight line till it strikes the opposite shore, where its speed dies + most of the bubbles float idly down stream, all of them bursting before going far, rippling the waters surface with rings. Others are returned to the starting point by a backcurrent. As I look across the water I