Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.042

[inscription reads] " into the sky. Of what are they made that they thus dissolve. / The sky is a forget-me-not blue & the clouds an opaque yellow. / Sounds only accentuate the silence. / The oddity about the cricket chorus is that we can never determine its location – peculiar ventriloquent character. Who is the leader of their orchestra, that they keep such perfect time? / There is rain in the air. The freight trains roar is close at hand. "