April 19, 1917
commercially bound notebook
5 ¾ x 3 ¾ inches
Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
distances – a crabapple with green film – Red Poplars against dead white sky – Smoke straight up from haze chimney into the sun
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Sultry motionless noon – Poplar trees splendid with hot RO bloom – pale pasty thunder clouds sunlit fill up in the lazy dappled sky; the grass in a peculiar blue green the highlight on the glittering blades cold white ; the ground queer tones of grey, RV, brown, ochre + orange - Houses heavy with a dull haze vibration
Some maple speckled