08/16/1914
graphite pencil on lined paper
5 3/4 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
out over the Beaver Valley - these are my bay windows, only better than such, as they allow the wind to come thru.Before me lie the Bottoms with their sparkling cornfields, and whitish edged curly tree covered swamps with the yellowish & reddish pastury hill beyond, crowned with trees, edges made transparent by the sun.The wind grows stronger, and roars thru the chestnuts - their leaves are at right angles to the trunks. The hill is covered mostly with oaks and chestnuts - they are fit trees for this hill! The grasshopper comes back - I can tell it is the same