Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.071

[inscription reads] " discovered that violets & wild geranium grew here, as a thunder-storm was imminent, we christened it in honor of the storm. In those days, we measured a woods by the variety of spring flowers it held. At its head was the Cherry-tree. / The breeze is best appreciated when we sit under a tree & can hear it in its branches and in the dried panicum at its base. / Next “Thunderwoods” (which name sounds ludicrous) is a field which has been let run wild, which at this season is overrun with lance leaved "