Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Study for Bearded Hills in August (The Ghostly August Hill)

ca. 1960

Conté crayon on paper

12 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches

Burchfield Penney Art Center, The Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006

The Ghostly August Hill lying among tawny fields 0 it is covered with shaggy dead white grass. Vast, Ghostly and white -
An old house with lacy cobwebby locusts
Tawny bearded hills in August
The dead white grass glows with a strange luminous intensity and saturates the lives of the people in the house.