Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] December 1, 1914. / Day opens softly with a dappled sky, the sky showing thru (sic) cloud-rifts. At noon trees were softened by a stagnant milky haze, which thickened by evening to a sticky rain. / After Art History Class Miss Ames detains me to explain the pendentive (sic) system of architecture. This leads to a discussion of other topics one of which was art and beauty and truth. Miss Ames said that “truth is what things are, altho (sic) we may know nothing of it, and our con-