Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.016

[inscription reads] " Sky a deep blue. / Wind directly from the north. When the wind is in the north, it brings with it a something fairylike. It stirs the imagination more than any other wind. We think we feel the touch of ice-dew in it. It takes a north wind to clear the sky & our eyes of dust. On such a day we feel that the Norsemen started out to sail the seas. We see in our eye a blue sea, & sky white choppy waves with white clouds to match. / One feels like climbing a house-top and with trumpet, summon all peo- "