Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

"Dear Charlie: It has occurred to me that Flame of Spring shows much the same motivation as The First Hepaticas, but with a change of emphasis, an abandonment of the grotesque and a more mature differentiation of the drawing and color. It abounds in poetic passages, and that, after all, is what makes a picture possible to live with. I got from it the idea that something is about to happen." —Excerpt from a letter from Edward Wales Root to Charles E. Burchfield, May 31, 1950, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Charles E. Burchfield Archives, Gift of David Richter, 1977