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Conventions for Abstract Thoughts

By Nancy Weekly in an essay for Heatwaves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

Rediscovering A Romantic Realist

Charles Burchfield: A master of American Modernist watercolor

Opposites Attract, and an Exhibition Opens

The Visionary Charles Burchfield

Read what John Dorfman wrote in Art and Antiques magazine.

Duayne Hatchett in The Buffalo News

Read what Colin Dabkowski wrote in Gusto.

Burchfield Penney
Art Center

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Buffalo, New York 14222

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Charles E. Burchfield

The Burchfield Penney Art Center holds the largest public collection of works by Charles E. Burchfield (1893–1967), as well as an archive of more than 10,000 pages of handwritten journals, 25,000 drawings, and other ephemera, including a scale re-creation of the artist’s studio.

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The Museum Store

The Museum Store at the Burchfield Penney Art Center is a place to discover one-of-a-kind gifts by local artisans, artist reproductions, as well as merchandise that celebrates Buffalo, Western New York and Charles E. Burchfield. 

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Painter, naturalist, American Master.

Charles E. Burchfield at the Center.