Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Haunted Twilight, 1954-62; watercolor and charcoal on paper, 32 3/8 x 39 1/8 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Gift of Charles Rand Penney, 1994
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals, August 14, 1958
Tuesday, Aug 14, 2018
P.M- In studio, working on “August Twilight” (The one inspired by my boyhood memories of evenings at our step-grandmother’s place in the country south of Minerva, Ohio) – The original aim in doing this picture was to achieve an eerie haunted effect- and even since I “brushed” it last year, it has bothered me that such an effect was not in it. I tried today to inject such a feeling without success, so that at the end I felt irritated and frustrated.
Charles E. Burchfield, August 14, 1958