Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.032

[inscription reads] " lone for once. / And so I lay, oblivious to time thinking. And at times I seemed on the point of learning why this life was, and grasping it, lost it, as when pursuing a butterfly, a little anxious, we swoop with cap before we are quite in reach & the startled butterfly darts up and away out of sight over the tree-tops. / Once, when I had raised on my elbow at some slight twig cracking, I discovered the moonlight was enough to make a shadow, tho (sic) the moon had not yet attained to the first quarter. Tree shadows "