Charles E. Burchfield, Autograph, hand-written manuscript, undated

While I was on a visit to N.Y. in 1920, Arthur B. Davies invited me to his studio, for the purpose of explaining to me a new method of painting in oil tempera with which he was experimenting. His idea was that it would serve my purpose better than water-color gouache which I was using then. I remember him as being very reserved and formal towards me, and he became very impatient when I asked him to repeat one of the directions he was giving me.

I made but four pictures in this medium of which “November Evening No. 1 – alone remains. Its opacity did not appeal to me, and I lost interest in gouache at the same time.

Charles E. Burchfield, date unknown