Study for March Wind in the Woods

Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Study for March Wind in the Woods

1952-61

conté crayon on paper

11 x 16 15/16 inches

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

“Work the Hawk Scream motif & sinister glower into one unit / (Two Versions – study both”—Charles E. Burchfield

Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself”

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me. . . . he complains of my gab and my loitering.

I too am not a bit tamed. . . . I too am untranslatable,

I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.