Charles E. Burchfield, "1918" in "Fifty Years as a Painter," 1965

From mid-January until the time of my departure for the Armed Services, my main interest was Humanity, not Nature. It was a bitter winter. I tried to show the hardness of human lives and the struggles, which led naturally into making “portraits” of individual houses, designed to show just what sort of people lived in them.
Charles E. Burchfield, 1965