Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] Nov. 7, 1914. / Day opens tingle-cold and clear. Walk to work & back. On return (8:30) the sunshine early & remote. 12:00 By Euclid to Lake-view cemetery sketching and dreaming - a strong wind. A milky blue haze fills the air, combined with the wind. Leaves fly up from the ground & with them sparrows, in pleasing confusion as to which is which. / To east of big mound in front of cemetery. Start sketching but all at once in the brown-leaved oaks at the top of the mound