Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " blue and green and white - the western sky cold with yellow & orange sky and ragged purple clouds. – / To the east a beautiful sight - a cloud like a thunderhead, the top yellowed, the bottom a peculiar blue - white - in a smoke brown sky that blended into the water, which reflected the cloud! - a feeling of remoteness and loneliness. / It is impossible to unite one’s self to nature with a crowd around. / I have lost this of nature - the extra sense "