Throughout series of paintings known as Studies of an Autumn Day by John Leslie Breck, hay mounds, farm buildings, ridge, and trees maintain their positions as their colors, textures, and shadows evolve with the moving sun and changing atmospheric conditions in the manner of time-lapse still photography. Although only twelve paintings of the series now are known to exist, Breck painted fifteen, as indicated by the numbered stanzas that comprise the poem "The Day (On Seeing John Leslie Breck's ‘Studies of an Autumn Day')," by the artist's brother Edward.