Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Conventions for Abstract Thoughts: Aimless Brooding, 1917; China marker and graphite on paper, 11 x 8 1/2 inches; Charles E. Burchfield Foundation Archives, Gift of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2006
Growing stale is not so much in forgetting ideas but in losing the youthful vigour to consider them worth dying for—
Charles E. Burchfield's Journals
March 13, 1922