Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] trees jutting against it. / Hunting chestnuts is comparable to hunting mushrooms. I love simple pleasures like this. Let such be my dissipation. / Heard a songsparrow along a roadside - a sparkle of notes born of this October sunshine! / Crows flying cloud-high thru (sic) the glittering air! - birds of wildness - / How speak sanely of October colors, with their blue windy shadows? Blue Sailors & Oxeyess in full bloom. Golden rod,