Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)Volume 37, Page 53
August 26, 1930
handmade cardboard notebook
13 3/8 x 12 3/8
Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
stems – corn-blades, dry and bleached rattle in the hot breeze—
There is a peculiar gloom inside the studio – it seems surrounded on all sides by white glaring sunlight – it dances in waves around the edges of the windows – tho they are closed, the air is full of the continuous tick-tock-tick and zee-zee sounds of countless insects that are shattered at times by the penetrating metallic songs of cicadas.
