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signed with the artist's monogrammed initials CEB and dated 1950-60, l.l. watercolor, pencil and charcoal on paper By the late 1950s and early 1960s, Charles Burchfield's health had begun to decline. Debilitating asthma attacks forced him to spend less time outdoors and more time working in the studio, where he began de-mounting and re-working earlier unfinished watercolors. An avid diarist since his early twenties, Burchfield's journals--over 10,000 pages worth of entries by the end of his life--also served at a repository of inspiration on the days when he could not visit his beloved "Big Woods." It was during this period of ill health and confinement that the artist's work quietly underwent its final transformation. J. Benjamin Townsend writes, "What distinguishes the watercolors of Burchfield's final, transcendental phase from his earlier painting is their portrayal of nature, not simply as a reflection of the artist's own experience and subjective response through the anthropomorphizing of natural events, but as an autonomous, animistic cosmos in which objects and forces present their own poetic dramas" (Charles Burchfield's Journals: The Poetry of Place, 1993, p. 528).