Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.057

[inscription reads] " long famine, so perhaps that is why they are so savory. This thought however does detract from them and in their taste are all the elements of this season – the blue haze, the wind, the hot white sky and the harvest spirit. There ripening is almost simultaneous to the ripening of wheat. I associate them with wheat-fields at any rate. / Gathering fire wood – the feel of rotting wood. / Go to east pond. On way stop to view gigantic maple blown over by the wind. The "