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
wide. Trees meet over creek.(HT)Come out in open pasturage overgrown with boneset. Creek here divides a road, which connects Goshen & Benton Roads. Go under cool bridge. The bed here is slimy with the siftings of many years dust. Who can say what were the feet that jarred this dust down here or whence came the dust? There may be mud here from the next state, brought on a rainy day. A horse suddenly converted from farm to driving horse may have brought sane from the fields. Boys & men afoot, cattle, dogs, buggies, farm wagons, bicycles