Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)Untitled (Journal Pg 48)
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
The stream becomes more secluded. I narrows & cone willows hang far out so that very little sky is reflected. The water’s clear by warm. Rank growths of Jewell weed. A leaf submerged in water becomes silver. When I let it go, it seeks top & shedding water, shoots out. I wonder if Hiawatha had coated his canoe with these leaves, if it would have been any more buoyant? At least it would have had a silver wake, as it sped along, the like of which no other canoe could make.(HT)I have often noticed in cool sandy hollows, that this