Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Deserted Miner's Home, 1918 (signed and dated 'Chas Burchfield/4/27-1918-' (lower right); Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down on board, 18 x 24¾ inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Purchased with support from the Collector’s Club, John and Carol Kociela, and the Burchfield Penney Art Acquisition Endowment, 2014
Charles E. Burchfield, Journals November 9, 1917
Wednesday, Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 1917 -
I was painting down by the railroad, on the hill above were the foreigner’s shacks; a locomotive, the kind that shifts back + forth like animals, shrieked; the [reichering] over the town was startling; the engine began a deep vibrating boom that shook the earth + then stopped. It was very quiet, from the chimney’s smoke went straight up into the hazy air –
This is the powerful freakish poetry of the town.
Charles E. Burchfield, November 9, 1917