08/27/1914
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
ly when I am in the city. Were I afield, no doubt the autumnal colors would give me the impression of the fall - we do not see them in the city.(HT)Autumn is the great romance season. Every event in nature or in human affairs no matter how mean or small, is colored with romance until it becomes glorified. I wonder if when a man is in the Fall of his life, if life has that aspect - I mean the ordinary man? To the poet life is that way thruout.Noon hot and sultry.