Charles Burchfield, Journals, June 25, 1949

A hot muggy day—morning cloudy, rain threatening but more comes.

P.M. set up my easel under fallen tree. When I had “layout” completed a storm in the S.W. I took the paper to studio but we got only the extreme edge. Seeing it would clear directly, I started again on the sketch & worked until 5:00 with great gusto. Then to P.O.—letters from F.W. & Joseph Fraser urging me to be the chairman of next Center’s Academy show. I decided to accept.

Evening B & I to Century to see “The Last Bandit” (fair routine story & good photography) and two Disney re—issues “Saludos Amigos” and “Dumbo”—these have genuine moments, especially “Dumbo”, with its tent—raising scene and the locomotive scenes, but so much of what Disney meant for pathos is better spelled with a “B”—

Charles E. Burchfield, June 25, 1949