June 3 - July 25, 1914
commercially-made lined paper notebook
5 7/8 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
as the greatest cause: Nature is always news always fresh and in this respect it is alone among the aesthetic enjoyments, unless perhaps it is a rare strain of suite a painting or piece of literature, not yet put to the test. There are works of art in all of these which we think would never grow old to us, yet never putting them to a test, or more truthfully, never afforded an opportunity to do so. Nature, contrariwise, is vigorously tried everyday, every hour and comes forth from each trial