Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " bottom it is broken into foam. / January 11, 1914. / My view of Nature now is like seeing sunlight thru (sic) a board fence: here and there we see a flash of sunlight thru (sic) an unwary crack. I do not begrudge these years. I am now learning my grammar, without which I cannot speak intelligently. I come to this book to keep alive the pure love of nature that I may not become merely a grammarian. / The distances this morning were winter’s milky blue, against which the yellow twigged willows "