Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)Untitled (Journal Pg 82)
August 14, 1914 - August 15, 1914
graphite pencil on commercially-made lined paper
5 13/16 x 3 11/16 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
duce posterity. But who knows but that with the passing of the war – loving element, a war despising race may evolve. The “weaklings who stays at home does not love war. If it is left to them to reproduce the race, may they not produce war fearing posterity. We need not fear that the race may become weak. We see daily “young giants” born of small parents.August 15, 1914(HT)Generally the word August brings up to the mind on its utterance visions of dead sultry days