February 11, 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] " ice. A crow cawed - the music in his call! / On my return I was wild with the beauty of the day and deprecated to my class-mates the fact of being indoors on such a day “What? Go out doors on such an ugly day - sloppy streets and nasty wind.” I was so full of the days wonder that I could hardly comprehend and was vexed. / At midafternoon sketching in park. The wind is stronger - at Grunplatz the woods is glassy with shallow pools of water, which the wind ripples finely, causing it to appear as pebbly clouds or, as A - said; like the "