Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

favorite of all was Jeannette McDonald, because she is so “clean’ – not a different husband every year.” He then old me that he had lost his own wife 6 years before, and that it was not pleasant living alone, but no one could take her place.; After show for walk down Tupper to Carolina, and on Prospect Virginia & West Ave, back by way of Troy to Delaware, thence to Bus Station – A dark day, and I had a feeling in this old neighborhood, of having stepped back a half-century. ; Watched for a moment the disgusting antics of a Monkey in a Pet shop window at Tracy & Elmwood. I loathe monkeys.; ; ; ; ; Mar. 20 – 1940 (Wednesday); Mar. 2 (Saturday) – Brilliant sun, in a misty sky. Painting all afternoon of shed and houses beyond.; Mar. 6 to 9 & Mar. 14 to 16 – Guggenheim jury in N.Y.; First meeting took two days (7th & 8th) – Boardman, Robinson, Mahonic Young, & Fraser the other jury-members. (the first day Fraser did not sit with us, but spent his time making a preliminary sorting of the sculpture groups.) –; We worked hard on this jury, going over the doubtful ones again and again, but still, at this distance in time, I am not sure we were wise in all our choices.; Boardman Robinson, whom I had met and liked at Mrs. Force’s last year, did not wear quite so well; he seems something of a poseur, as F.R. put it, a “stuffed shirt” – Mahonic Young, on the contrary, repelled me at first by his sweeping