The book includes drawings from his 1917 sketchbook, Conventions for Abstract Thoughts; watercolors from 1916 - 18 that were the focus of the first one - person exhibition at The Museum of
Modern Art, Germany, in 1930;
camouflage designs from his tour in the army and wallpaper
designs from the 1920s; watercolors from the 1940s showing the artist's unique technique of expanding and reworking earlier works by pasting large strips of paper around them to dramatically increase their size; and finally Burchfield's large, transcendental watercolours from the 1950s and 1960s.