Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.072

[inscription reads] " golden rod, whose shrubby tops are just commencing to yellow. A few tall milkweeds. In some places are meshes of lesser cinquefoil. Several patches of smoky beardgrass, now dried & white. Running down the middle as straight as a mullein stalk, is a long narrow bed of asters uniform in width. I am quite sure no one ever took the trouble to plant them in this manner. / Song sparrow sings his head off – this is no exaggeration in a sense – his notes come forth with such volume & intensity that "