Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.019

[inscription reads] " writing of its hideousness, am not above it. But I can thank God that my desire for wealth is not for personal luxuries. My desire is to free my mother & sisters of financial worries. And thus, when I work, with only gold at the end of the task, I can partially excuse myself deeming that after all it is not gold at the end of the task. / There is a suggestion of the blue green coolness of icebergs in it, of finely sifting snow, of ice-huts, starry sky arching a cold white northern snow desert, of green "