Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

of the type who rule the world. Gibson with his perpetual assumed frown of seriousness as he pounds his way about the office; Carpenter, a dried up wisp of a man, with his inevitable pipe that seems to be sucking out his life juices instead of the opposite; Mullins, fat and sleek, waddling down the hall followed by his little toy dog, who – an animal that enjoys more privileges than most men; Nelson, for all the world like a little rat terrier in a lion’s skin, Blackburn, reluctant to go home at night and leave his work; all of them prancing in attendance on Mullins, who receives this views their abject quill-sharpening with serene pleasure; - and an artist should quarrel with them over the way they govern the world! Michelangelo conducted a continuous battle with ignorant popes, but what hint is there of it in his works?