Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

“The Pine Knot House” in New Albany, Ohio

In his handmade album of drawings, Burchfield described what he called “The Pine-Knot House” as “A lonely house in a deep woods – A lonely hermit lives here – he has a cat; bats live under the eaves — at night the screech-owls come forth & whine; the nameless fear of dark crawls out of the woods. There is the feeling of north woods with its lynxes – A black mood of December, the Polar night, hangs over all-”