Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " blue & white landscape. I am elated to find I am as sensitive to these sounds as ever. Busy writing this morning, shut up in my room, the first faint “Cht” electrified me and I was on my knees looking out the window. / Jan. 6, 1914. / Two Thaw-days - yesterday a clear day with intense, warm sunshine - rivulets of melted snow streaking over the ice, cast¬ing upwards a million miniature suns. The haze steam at the dissappearing (sic) snow softened the air - sunset was wond- "