Study for In the Deep Woods

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Study for In the Deep Woods

c. 1956

Conté crayon on paper

11 1/8 x 17 1/4 inches

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

Titled “In the Deep Woods” with notation: “all sorts of mysterious fantastic things / mosquito phantoms.” Shape at right used in the painting In the Deep Woods (1956) on the right side of the Convention for Abstract Thoughts “Insanity” motif