Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.059

[inscription reads] " The pondbed is completely covered with a raw-bladed grass peculiar to swamps. In this dry grass season this fresh green bed is like an oasis. / Bunches of tiny fleas congregate in air and fly up & down rapidly. / East Pond begins east of creek a short distance north of Beech & continues eastward, flanked by trees. Makes turn northward and is divided by a picket fence, on the other side of which is still some water for a short distance, - thickish yellow green muddy water, over which two huge clumps of linden lean, that have specked "