January 1917
graphite on paper
6 1/2 x 8 inches
Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006
Right Side:
How trees seem to
interchange positions in space-
ghost like trees in foreground...
Trees crouch towards eachother-
The woods is a chaotic broken thing-
dead branches on ground
trees half torn to pieces- slanting
this way and that
Left Side:
A feeling of quaintness; of something far removed
of fairy folk; a feeling of hostile trees;
a feeling of trees trying to hide ; others are
held against their will; the snow comes from
a fathomless hole in the sky; a
feeling of an overpower-
in a black presence-
a feeling of foresakenness.......;
of north woods
get ominous feeling of
snow + violet light coming
from S.E.