Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads]  some day this week. / In bed by 1:30. I watch a star low in the east. Sparkles with red, green & blue lights. Wonderfully. As I watch it I entertain thoughts of “art for art’s sake.” It is clearly fixed my mind what I shall do. / Oct. 21, 1914. / The third of wonderfully fair October days. My heart seems ever on the point of bursting with the beauty of this autumn. It is a golden age all my thoughts seemed touched with the golden atmosphere. Such an autumn is rare.