Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.077

[inscription reads] " Sow thistle here covered with cotton. Not yet blowing. I examined them & found they were all barren. Hedges separates this from Cornfield. Elm, pin oak, wild cherry, maple, apple, elder, Tame cherry. / The wind is growing stronger with each moment and brings with it more mist to obscure the sky and a blue haze. The sun but a glow overhead; unless we move, the shadow becomes dissolved into the ground. / Is that blue haze which grows denser all the time, the smoke of plants burned dur- "