Charles E. Burchfield and Julius J. Lankes

Burchfield noted that his 1924 wood engraving, The Haymow, was based on his 1920 watercolor titled Sugartree Alley. Due to the post-World War I depression, Burchfield lost his job at the Mullins Company in 1921, so he worked during the summer at the Kenreich farm in Greenford, Ohio. About a year later, he married Bertha Kenreich, who joined him in Buffalo, where he had taken a job at the M. H. Birge & Sons Company.