Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Arching Trees, 1940; watercolor on paper, 24 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 27, 1917
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Thinking of an artist who yearns to compose wonderful music, yet what he sees with his eyes is the overwhelming instinct – he fancies himself blinded by some accident which causes him to turn perforce to music – he almost covets such a circumstance. As I came home tonight over the country road in the damp dusk I heard such music in my mind, as he might compose.
Charles Burchfield's Journals
January 27, 1917