February 4-5, 1949
ink on unlined paper
9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
golden ochre sunlight. Groups of houses & other buildings—old faded vermillion, velvety in texture, and saturated with the golden light. A strange bizarre village comprised of ancient tall narrow wooden towers (about 8 to 10 feet square) in which people lived. F or balconies on the various levels they had attached huge Victorian chairs and davenports. I was greatly excited & said to B “I must come back here to paint.”; ; ; ; ; ____________A dark depressing day, alternate soggy snow & rain. We both felt we would like to go south for awhile [sic].Remounting the Liverpool sketch.Evening—Rummy Feb. 5—(Saturday).Dream fragments—(a) ; Art driving a motor driven sledge in some sort of contest, I along as “observer” & two negros [sic] as helpers. One of the negroes [sic] inclined to be insubordinate I gave him a severe lecture, pointing out that Art was in supreme command & that his orders must be implicitly obeyed. _ _ _