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Some cool things I found in the Burchfield Penney Archives (Thank you, Heather!).
This week I did something I’ve been wanting to do for a while.
The Burchfield Penney Art Center s pleased to announce a collection of the works and writings of Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967) will be on exhibition for the first time this summer at the Chautauqua Institution.
Read more in The Buffalo News.
Lynch, who was born and raised in Western New York, made eight week-long visits from her current home in New York City to Buffalo to further her own work inspired by Burchfield.
Found natural still lives and trees as metaphorical portraits, the photographs in this series, Presence, depict my experience as Burchfield Penney Art Center 2013 Artist-in-Residence.
We often don't think of curators as detectives, but that's exactly the role Burchfield Penney Arts Center curator Nancy Weekly took on recently when a long-lost painting by Charles E. Burchfield surfaced in New York City.
On a series of trips to Buffalo spread over a year, photographer Janelle Lynch learned all she could about watercolorist Charles E. Burchfield. She also took her camera into Burchfield’s woods in West Seneca, setting out to create work that would mirror some of the great painter’s visual and intellectual concerns.
A Blog Post by Nancy Weekly, Head of Collections and the Charles Cary Rumsey Curator, Burchfield Penney Art Center, and Burchfield Penney Instructor in Museum Studies, SUNY Buffalo State