Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)Volume 44, Page 105
September 1, 1942 - September 2, 1942
cardboard notebook bound with string
8 1/2 x 11 inches
Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
105. Sept. 1 -
Valentine, who was to have brought out Isaac Soyer today, called up and said Soyer was all "tied up" with arranging the exhibit of the Summer School exhibit and could not come. Soyer also talked to me - I told him I was coming out to the tea for the opening tomorrow night and would arrange then for them to come out.
Sept. 2 -
B + I out to the Allen Rd. country - take our lunch along and eat under the big maple at the east end of the road. Tho a warm humid day, it was pleasant under the tree, for a wind, that increased somewhat as the day progresses, rendered the air in the shade delightful.
A very pleasant relaxed interlude for us; we both enjoyed it thoroughly; listening to the late summer wind in the tree's foliage trying to determine why it had a "late summer" sound. B - though because the leaves were drier than in Early Summer; - listening to the various insects; the little trip to the swampy patch in the field to the South; with its profusion of golden rod and light blue-violet asters.
Afterwards, to Springville, and thence to West Valley where we, with a slightly (and unwarranted) guilty feeling, filled our tank with gas. Peach ice-cream cones which we ate parked along the road.
Evening - B + M + I to the Art School Tea. Meet there Mrs. Ritchie (wife of the new doctor of the Albright Gallery) The Eliots, and
