Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Baur, John I. H.  Charles Burchfield.  New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1956.  Catalogue accompanying the traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1956-57, catalogue no. 31, plate no. 17, illustrated in black and white with the following text by Burchfield on page 38:

A reminiscence of South Carolina where I spent six months in the Army….A man coming home to his little cabin, carrying his sack of provender, fearful of the eerie, haunted, skull-like woods that stands behind his home, against a lurid sunset sky.