Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

we see colored discs. In childhood when we did this and saw the images in the grass we thought they were sunbeams and tried to capture them. By looking rapidly and often I soon had quite a host of them. They took on most beautiful colors. Against sky they are red-violet and blueviolet, against trees & grass a bright vivid emerald. As I bring them closer they shrink in size.(HT)As these “impressions” grow older they fade gradually and as I was watching one collection against the sky