Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, April 17, 1953

All day spent with Miss Prasse going over pictures etc. an intensive work – we ultimately chose 41 water-colors of the 1916-1920 period, & 23 first choice of 1940-1953, 23 seemed choice – I also showed her the indelible pencil drawings of 1919, which she received with enthusiasm. (I had always considered these oddities).

She left on the 6:40 Bus for Buffalo.

Before departing she urged me to consider the possibility of making it entirely a drawings exhibit. And as the evening wore on it seemed to me more & more a good idea, and I began to review in my mind possible examples from the New York 1916 drawings, as well as 1917, 1918, 1920 & 1921 – and to plan to execute a group of transcriptions of certain important pictures of the 1921-1940 period, as well as a group of present day ideas. A strong deterrent to the idea of a water-color show is the fact that nothing large would sell, and the impractibility [sic] of showing the larger water-colors without frames.

A letter from Kalin that they had chosen the “Glory to God” [triptych] idea (the 1949 – Sun in the woods made in the Big Woods - a decision that pleased me.

Charles E. Burchfield, April 17, 1953