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
and utter lack of faith in the Great Power. Sad it is that some crouch & tremble, when if they but follow their bible, by which they profess to set so much store, they would know that God is not cruel but kind, and could stand up to the severest flash without a tremor. I, having no tradition to fill me full of such things, preferring to learn truth from first-hand observation, see only beauty in lightning. We do not fear what we love.I have never observed so many colors in lightning