Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Black Tree and Setting Sun, ca. 1917; gouache, watercolor and graphite on paper, 20 x 14 inches; Image from the Burchfield Penney Art Center Archives
Tolstoy:
"A friend is good; but Nature is better; She is a friend whom one does not lose even in death; for when one dies he is completely reunited with her”
(From “Tolstoy the Man” by Steiner).
Charles E. Burchfield, January 28, 1915