Nature's four seasons as inspiration

From: Art Education | Date: March 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

...I used to harbor the thought that one year of Nature chronology would finish the job-would rob succeeding years of new chronologies. Even tho I walk forever on the same paths & in the woods &fields, and even note the same phenomena, each year will bring a new chronology, for my view of life is ever changing. The thought is still more ludicrous when I think of the meagerness of my observations.

-Charles Burchfield, Jan. 9th, 1915, Poetry of Place

The selection from Charles Burchfield's journals underscores how nature has continually served as inspiration for artists throughout the ...

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