Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

along constructing wild dreams —How much fuller the life of the man who has “Taken unto himself a mate.” When the purpose of the union been accomplished and a new life is on the way – is there any joy that the “free” man enjoys that can equal this?Bertha has become to me the symbol of all nature – nature pregnant with all the possibilities of new life. One man does not really love ‘till he beholds his wife at this stage and realizes that both she and himself are soon to be reproduced- the complete union resulting in a new being. The coming of Spring will be a true Spring at last, for with it will come the new life. Winter takes on a new meaning, for all the long months the new life will be growing & with the fulfillment of spring be born —