July 12, 1915
double-sided drawing, graphite on paper
8-1/2 x 6 inches (sight)
Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Carolyn Morris-Hunt and William Menshon in memory of Sylvia Rosen, 2021
Color notations in center right:
“BV – dk” [Blue Violet] “pale cerul” [pale cerulean] “ochre” “pale BG” [pale Blue Green]
Notations at bottom:
“over / Trees in foreground – black green - / All things in heat white haze —"
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, Vol. 26, July 12, 1915, p. 50.
July 12, 1915-
A stagnant morning of wierd [sic] thunderhead rhythms in the sun whitened sky — an afternoon of wind & whispy [sic] skies — Sun sets a white glow in streaky sky – songsparrow [sic] sings & swallows skim the sky — the afterglow set the sky on fire, when the whole sky became orange & rose-salmon lighting up the earth with yellow light –
This sketch was possibly catalogued with the wrong date in Burchfield handmade “Catalogue of 1915 Sketches,” (June 5, 1915 – August 31, 1915), Burchfield Penney Art Center, The Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of Harriet and Mortimer Spiller, 1976.50. See below for the entry for the sketch "J" catalogued as being on the reverse of July 12, 1915:
VERSO
July 13, 1915
(J) – Windy trees in sunset light, long lines of cloud puffs – new kind of clouds