Charles Burchfields Journals

Download or read book Charles Burchfield's Journals written by Charles Burchfield and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: pages) by J. Benjamin Townsend. What a great event--the edited and annotated journals of Burchfield Brilliantly edited (from 72 bound notebooks comprising some 10,000 (1893-1967), the preeminent American watercolorist and painter of nature, complemented by 41 color plates and 131 bandw illustrations. And what a journal--Burchfield's intelligence, sensitivity, spirituality revealed in notes on activities, sketching trips, nature observations, personal encounters, literature and music, artistic growth, and religious conflict. Beginning with the summer before his third year of high school and continuing up to nine months before his death, the journals constitute a huge 20th-century spiritual autobiography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR