Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

[inscription reads] " where. Lake beautiful - a wonderful luminous green in long stretching streaks uniting with the slate blue sky - a symphonic Poem of color against which play yellow-twigged willows, red bushes, and green cottonwoods. A wind from N.E. which ruffled the lake slightly, and as we walked along, white caps commenced to appear, appearing and disappearing like fire - flies in a night woods in July. There was such a freshness of “look” about it that my desire was to jump naked in its waves.] "