Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)Untitled (Journal Pg 47)
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
enter a meadow that is run wild with tall flowering plants of all sorts, yellow sunflowers overrunning all others. Boneset, Vervain Agrimony, Jewell weed (near creek) wild bergamot, goldenrod, yarrow, hogpeanut - the harvest season’s own garden. Several willows here crowed by a mass of white blossoms of white cucumbers. Goldthread in bloom. Knotty bunches of white flowers along steam.Pin-point sound of crickets. Cat-bird meows.