Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " poetry. The rainbow was a supernatural event until someone ex-plained it that falling rain broke up the sunlight into colors. Yet it is ignorance not to know it. / Jan 12, 1915 / A peculiar morning: The earth was whitened with a film of snow, as if a great white light shown on it; while a dense fog, crowded down on all sides creating in the trees wonderful gradations, one behind the other. That a strong wind should whistle out of the fog surprised but "