Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Oct. 23 (Thurs.) – Nov. 6 (Thurs.)

The usual period of getting over the effects of an exhibition and a trip: trying to pick up my life here again, and get re-oriented so that I can start painting again. I have not really been so, since the first trip to N.Y for Carnegie.

            The first day home (Oct. 23) I slept most of the day, getting up at late afternoon to drive over (with B + A-) to meet the girls, home for three days vacation.

            One day spent in town searching, with little luck, for chin-rests – four girls to movie.)

            Remounting + enlarging some picture: -

            Study of Bertha (1937) reading from 21 x 23 to 23 x 33 –

            Uprooted Tree (1920-) from 21 x 30 to 27 x 41

            Storm over Irondale (1920) from 26 x 30 to 28 x 40

            March Day at Gowanda (1924) From 23½ x 26 to 26 x 36.

Finished work on these Wed. (Nov. 5) – “The Up-rooted Tree” seems to suggest possibilities for a much bigger theme than simply the study of a fallen tree.

            Wednesday was a beautiful, Indian Summer day, one on which the sun always seems to be in the south, from early morning to late afternoon – The mild sunlight, enveloping Bengert’s bleached corn-patch, and the yellowing poplars beyond, fills the studio with a mellow golden glow.

            I finished my work in the studio, and spent the rest of the