Charles Burchfield’s Long Shadows reflects the artist’s affinity for experimenting with light and color. A contemporaneous entry from Burchfield’s journals evidences his fascination with the temporal effects on the landscape: "A cold windy day – soft flaky windy day clouds move across the rich blue sky all day. … The sunsets at this season are romantic – to see long blue green shadows stretching out to yellow remotely sunlit distances is to live in another world." Burchfield’s highly saturated colors give the work a graphic quality. These flat expanses of color anticipate the work of later contemporary artists, such as David Hockney and his digital drawings.