Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Church Bells Ringing, Rainy Winter Night, 1917; watercolor and gouache over graphite, 30 3/8 x 19 5/8 inches; Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Louise M. Dunn in memory of Henry G. Keller 1949.544
Charles Burchfield, Journals, April 5, 1964
Friday, Apr 5, 2019
The large cemetery adjacent to ‘Our Lady of Victory’ Basilica, usually so ugly and depressing, buff of a deep enchanting mystery—the seemingly innumerable grotesque monuments, darkened by years of smoke and grime from the steel mills, seemed not ugly but full of mysterious hauntedness. The same was true of the mean streets of houses and small stores—Even in the very heart of this steel town with its rows of identical sooty houses and steel mills with their tall black chimneys, [it] seemed only full of glamour and mystery—the tall chimneys with the lace-like ladders on one side were particularly beautiful
Charles Burchfield, April 5, 1964