Charles E. Burchfield's Dreams, Journals, December 3, 1947

A dream - Someone (possibly the publishers) had sent me an advance copy of a new book - the world as it appeared to a child (in this case, a girl) with many illustrations by some young artist. As I leafed through it, all at once I myself was in the farm home of the little girl- it was L-shaped, and I stood in the hall at the corner. I thought that the pictures were marvels of imaginative power and conventionalization, a true visual record of the actual “visions” of a child. One was the light coming into a window over the top of an old Victorian chair, or bed-stand. The halation of light as it broke over the object was conventionalized into a beautiful significant design, full of the glory of a child’s innocent & unquestioning belief in God. I felt a warm protectiveness surrounding me, from all corners of the house. Each picture, as I looked at it, became translated into the actual scene in the home itself, so that I, in truth, was the child, grown up, and being allowed a peep into a lost world.

 Charles E. Burchfield, December 3, 1947