Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

Void of blue vaporous gas from brick kilns

All kinds of tawny colors, hot grays fill the heavy sky — there are no clouds but the sun does not shine thru very strongly. Cicadas fill the air with song. Heat waves rise from the ground — the whole is a symphony of heat, ghostly odors, and hot brilliant light — deathly quiet.

The void of the life of this valley is awful to Contémplate.  Yet it is gripping.

The raw shattered trees sparsely covering the harsh clay-ey hills — raw green & harsh yellow — smoke blackened places

Life at Irondale is hideously raw, crude & primitive — It is splendid in its very brutality. Powerful & awe-inspiring.