Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " utterly elusive. Such were today’s beauties. / I have arrived at the point in my work, where I can look ahead and see what I must begin to learn; so far I have been deluding myself - now I must begin to study. / Feb. 11, 1915 / I think I see nature with a more complicated eye than earlier. Where once a fleet of clouds blown by a wind across the ragged sky was enough for me; now I look at it, troubled how best to put it down “on canvas”. When this - the grammar of expression - has become as much a part of me "