Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " ance of having just a few minutes ago, been frozen solid, and then enveloped in a warm wave. As if the climbing sun were the cause, (and perhaps so) yellow fissures appeared in dapple fashion all over the sky, and steadily widened until the sun broke thru (sic), startling the snow into a yellow glare. By noon, the sky was a clear watery blue; the sun was pleasant; the snow melted fast in the warm haze. At late afternoons whisp-mists appeared to attend the sun. The day "