February 21, 1923
graphite pencil on commercially-made paper
12 x 10 1/8 inches
Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
“Early Morning” had about it the gay vigour of a clean March sunrise, or of the way we jump up when children, on a summer’s morning, alive to the sun’s warm rays. This is a great event in my life, I seemed to see in that chorus all the great possibilities that humanity is capable of.