Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

“Hilly country south & east of East Aurora…beyond Strykersville…13 ¼ miles from home”
“Straight on 78, past the junction with 98, to 368, then south—”

After several unsuccessful trips to find the site he and Bertha had visited four years earlier, where they picnicked and “found some magnificent Turk’s cap lilies,” Burchfield found what he was searching for:

As I drove on later, I turned right on a road leading southward; and after passing thru a dense woods I came upon a little swamp, and with a sudden realization I almost exclaimed aloud – “This is the place”! quite by accident, I had found our elusive road, which was indeed, just beyond the swamp. I turned in on it, and went up over the hills. Here, I found my painting subject in an oat field, partly cut & shocked, with the hot sun pouring down on it, and with misty clouds in the hot white sky; — I spent the afternoon here.