08/28/1914
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
wrong. Then something happens - or again it is without an event - and as tho it were being revealed to us for the first time, the truth and beauty of his ideal is revealed to him - like the burst of sunshine after a rainy day, we think we never saw sunshine before.How the smoke and steam cling to the ground. It seems alive. There is no evident breeze yet this earth cloud wanders about close to the ground vainly striving to ascend thru the spitting rain.At 5:00 the clouds appear broken & hurl past from the north east. It is seldom we