Bruce Shanks (1908-1980)Untitled (Journal Pg 80)
September 22, 1914 -September 23, 1914
graphite on lined paper
5-7/8 x 3-3/4 inches
Burchfield Penney Art Center courtesy of the Charles E. Burchfield Foundation, 2000
[inscription reads] " of its whiteness, and because its scent is not unpleasant. We can go no farther. But who can begin to say why the buttercup is beautiful? Or the dandelion or the skunk-cabbage? The beauty of a flower does not exist in its form & scent, but in the associations it brings up; not because it tallies with certain abstract rules of beauty but because it has some subtle meaning for us. / Sept 23, 1914. / Yesterday & this morning the robins have been around, one of too (sic) warbling "