Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967), Flower Pot in Window, 1919; Watercolor and pencil on paper, 21 7/8 x 18 inches; Burchfield Penney Art Center, Purchase with funds from Gary & Willow Brost, Peter & Ilene Fleischmann, John & Carol Kociela, Cindy A. & Francis Letro, Monica Angle & Sam Magavern, Shelley & Ken Drake, Timothy Hunt & Carolyn Morris-Hunt,, Rita Argen Auerbach, James & Joy Brandys, John & Carolyn Darby, Carol E. Heckman, Cynthia Baird Stark & David Stark, and anonymous, 2014
Now (midnight) the roofs are all covered with frost, tall white smoke goes up from one chimney into the vast moonlit sky; even shadows are silvery — the silence is profound — What a wonderful thing that an expected season never fails us — this midwinter Spring, so fleeting and elusive that we fear another year will not bring it — yet it always comes.
Charles E. Burchfield, December 3, 1919