Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.042

[inscription reads] " ceased to blow. / And so the sunset hour is one of dead calm. The stillness of the air may be noted from a bank of smoke which hangs perfectly motionless like some spectre. It o’er shadows the air, for I felt something dark was in the air while my back was to it. And yet the clouds up overhead are visibly moving. Is it a high air current or do they drift as an object does in a calm sea. Most of the clouds have vanished those that remain are high & scattered & even they, as twilight deepens, disappear "