Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.068

[inscription reads] " clouds. Nature is changed by night. Dark woods on every hand seen like aboriginal forest yet to be trod by man. /Sunday August 2, 1914 / A calm non-committal morning. A strong cool breeze blowing from the southwest. Sky a misty one, partially covered with dappled clouds, which dim the sun, that momentarily grows bright at a fissure & again dull, behind a cloud. / Entering Strawn’s lots, I cross stubble field & sit down on pile of rocks embracing the trunk of a thick "