Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Locust Trees in Spring, 1955; watercolor on paper, 39 1/2 x 29 1/2; Private collection; Image from of the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Charles Burchfield, July 23, 1914
Saturday, Jul 12, 2014
Locusts become musical at twilight. To how few people is the metallic rasp of a locust music. It and kindred sounds i.e. such has have no delicacy of sound nor musical rhythm, as the caw of a crow, the "yipe" of a skeitpoke or the blung of a frog are classed by a certain kind of uninterested people as harsh and discordant and not to be reckoned among nature's beauties, forgetting that nothing in nature is ugly...
Charles Burchfield, July 23, 1914