Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

A2000.001.017.092

[inscription reads] " by summers curlage, dimmed as they are by the bluish mists. / The dust from off of whitened roadside plants & bushes, the pollen from crumpling corn, the black powder of corn soot, the dust from rotting logs, the down of milkweed, the sunlight dashed from poplar leaves? / No that is what forms the haze we see. / The scent of milkweed & blooming catnip or of a crushed mayapple, the decaying odor from a drying frog-pond, or the multiplex odor of oats wheat "