Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.061

[inscription reads] " The bark of a buttonwood where peeling is completed seems as smooth & soft as a horse’s nose. / Small meadow-frogs. / Hoptoads in east-pond about tripled in size. If some silly folk who shudder at the sight of a toad or frog, would but look at their eyes, he would I am sure, be rid of his foolish squeamishness. There is no eye quite like it in the wild animal world. The only eye which I can compare it to is that of a mild sagacious horse. Their absolute harmlessness tameness is reflected in their eye, and more, it "