October 31, 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 sounds that led my imagination to believe they were fairies sporting in the inner damp recesses of a dream-forest. / When I listen to music I feel that painting etc are futile. Here, in these master compositions are the very things the artist is always striving for and never seems to attain. Music takes the sympathetic hearer to illimitable ecstacy lands. / The Program: / 1. Overture - Fidelio / L. Van Beethoven / 2 - Symphony No 1, op. 21 / L. Van Beethoven