Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.035

[inscription reads] " the “tops” being broken by small full curves. They remind one of beaten eggs & suggest their stiffness. The sky is an intense chalky blue, and the sun, itself dazzlingly bright, is intensified by the lividly white edge of the clouds. / The wren is rampant again this morning & at noon, never seeming to pause for breath. / Sundown time brings the usual clearing of the sky, while the sun is yet three hours high. The air is brittle & renders all earthly objects so. One imagines if he could reach the clouds with a long pole, a good thwack with it would shatter the "