Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

August 17, 1914(HT)Sometime before daylight the rain came - a cairn steady soft shower, which comes early in the morning. At noon the sky clears. Air neutral.(HT)After supper to Three Trees to sketch.(HT)August is preeminently the month of colors - both intense vivid colors, and dreamy tints. Every known color exists in the August evening sky in some tint or shade. On earth there are myriad shades of yellow and green and in the woods we find flaring yellows, purple &