Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 do a crow cawing from tree tops motif—)—I find a spot suitable spot readily and set up my easel—then back to the car for lunch. Hepaticas just in bud here.All afternoon on the sketch, with great pleasure, improvising freely & inventing symbols—the sky cleared about [midafternoon], but I was able to proceed [anyway].—Finished about six—the sun settling in a blaze of gold behind the wooded hills to the west. I dug a few hepaticas for B to put in a dish, then got a basket of rotten wood for the rhubarb. Then moved the car to the brow of the hill westward and ate my lunch. A pale moon sliver, almost horizontal. Then home. B thought the sketch one of my best.April 2—(Sat.).Unable to get to sleep until after 3:00. Dull today—A.M. to E. Aurora to get one of the pictures (the frame of which I needed for the K.C. show) Replaced with “White Birches” P.M. young man (Robt. Young) out from State Teacher’s College—He had asked for an “Interview” (Which I thought he needed as part of his school work). But what he wanted was to beg a picture donation to an auction they are going to hold, I resent all such ideas. Evening M & A down.April 3 (Sun.).B M & I to Immanuel ChurchP.M. working on pictures for K.C.Evening B & I to M’s—lunch etc. (Hank at Phohl’s)Apr. 4 (Mon.)A fine clear day after a frost.—the air full of tang—