Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " ¬erful, a whispy creation with no intense colors; soft blendings of orange & grey. An early spring chill in the air; it is odd how now, as the sun in returning, we begin to suspect spring. / Today a soft rainy day. To Cleveland by rail with Miss Ames. It is good to find someone advanced in years who has never grown old. Miss Ames is certainly charming and I might guess her age to be any where from twenty to thirty, tho (sic) most others really of this age are much older. / The peculiar milk-haze blued the distances. "