1943
graphite pencil on unlined paper
9 5/8 x 11 5/8 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
1943
May 1, 1935—A dream (a subconscious urge while asleep)—Someone said to me “you ought to go back to those old interpretations of nature again” and at once I was standing on a street near the edge of a strange town; it was raining; time was late summer and the reflections in the wet sidewalk of a group of maples seemed inespressably [sic]