08/23/1914
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
blow the sunlight in? Morning cool and windy. Sky deep blue. Noon-wards, sky becomes whitish. Perhaps the tearing wind collects the leaf shimmer & sends it aloft.(HT)How bright the sunshine. Under a noon sun, the glint on the trees is heightened and sends a tinny glow upward.(HT)I wonder if it is the wind that lessens the shadows on such a day. I am more inclined to think that the bright flowers, the shiny leaves, the roads & house & walls which act as mirrors of the sunlight and so am myriad search lights, too fine for our