September 19, 1914
graphite on lined paper
5-7/8 x 3-3/4 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
[inscription reads] " of crickets. / Calmness of evening. / Spotted yellow & green tulip — wonderful. Bloody woodbine on elms – Some oaks becoming yellow. / Streak of flame on D’s Hill. / Thin hum of air-dancing mosquitos. Humming mosquitos bouncing up & down against the saffron west. Dutchman’s woods changing color. / Swamps are turning red. Wine colored bushes. Cat-tail leaves are orange. Out of them come calls of redwings. Faint warbling of birds. I think I hear chewink. / All trees in a webby haze. / Mosquitos abound. "