Art from Nature

"The great difficulty of my whole career as a painter is that what I love most . . . holds little of interest for most people ... I love the approach of winter, the retreat of winter, the change from snow to rain and vice versa, the decay of vegetation and the resurgence of plant life in the spring. These to me are exciting and beautiful, an endless panorama of beauty and drama, but . . . the mass of humanity remains either bored and indifferent or actually hostile."

Thus Painter Charles Burchfield confided to...

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