Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

artist – buy his pictures. It took the joy out of my recent successes for two reasons: One feels guilty over having a success, while another artist is being driven to suicidal despair; and because it does not seem possible that I should escape a like fate in my old age.]Mid P.M. walk out to Union to French across fields to Clinton & home – a fine cold day – stiff wind from west – lowering skies. The high tension wires – a deep (almost guttural) roar in the wires – powerful & elemental.Jan 4, 1940 (Thurs.) –; Last night – B & I, M & M.A. & G.R. to Kenmore theatre to see once again the Heifetz picture – which seemed as good as the (sic) on the first viewing –; Morning walk – Letter from Louise –; [By the R.R. a strange sky – great loose indefinite expanses of misty clouds – which diffuse the rays of the invisible sun in such a way that an ominous yellow pallor seems to shine down on the earth in all directions. I thought – to paint that warm sky one should make first a wash of zinc yellow – then a wash of cobalt blue & cobalt violet, with Dary’s Gray to get the musky sullen effects – I wonder if that would get it.]; Trees & freight cars – I thought of an intensive painting to get a super-realistic summary of such a scene._______________; Three Dreams last night.; Spotty barking aroused me. I fell asleep and dreamed that I went down and outdoors to see what alarmed her. I saw that water was running out from the porch over the front lawn, and even as I