Anthony J. Sisti (1901-1983), Picnic at Chestnut Ridge, 1943; oil on canvas, 15 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches (Frame: 21 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches); Gift of Tony Sisti, 1979
"Burchfield has exacted a quality that we may call poetic, romantic, lyric, or what you will. By sympathy with the particular, he has made it epic and universal." - Edward Hopper, who was friends with Burchfield (both were represented by the Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries in New York).