Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Late Winter Dawn, 1956-65; watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on joined paper mounted on board, 49 3/4 x 32 3/4 inches; The Spiro Collection, Courtesy of Debra Force Fine Art, New York
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, January 10, 1920
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014
The “January Spring” with its exciting afterglows and smoking chimneys and wide-roaming trains has come and gone and now the earth is shut in by a low dark sky; the trees heavily coated with ice stand like gigantic feathers and crackle in the wind – all horizons are an ominous dark gray -
What a wonderful thing that an expected season never fails us – this midwinter spring, so fleeting and elusive, that we fear another year will not bring it – yet it always comes.
Charles E. Burchfield, January 10, 1920