Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " music is superior to nature’s. I can listen tirelessly to an endless wind in the tops of some forest; or the tinkle of some brook; or the calls of crows. While a prolonged~ concert by an orchestra of the greatest composers may often produce, by their length, only weariness. / January 21, 1915. / The second of wonderful winter days. It has been snowing since the morning of the l9th - then great squareshaped soggy lumps from the east; developed gradually "