January 26, 1915
graphite on lined paper
5 7/8 x 3 7/8 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
[inscription reads] " train smoke - walk to school - very cold; as day proceeds - mist came to beautify the sky - Midafternoon - sun in wierd (sic) sky, train. / Sun gone at four. / To station - factory sky wierdly (sic) white in contrast to yellow sky - trains approaching - boiling forth out of the mist. / Out of city - blue woods darkening sky - white earth weeds sticking forth - all singularly beautiful. / Thru (sic) twinkling sapling thicket I watch salmon flush growing in west; "