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
It’s garden season in Buffalo, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Ave.) has teamed up with the Buffalo Museum of Science to take advantage of the botanical excitement now spreading through the region like ivy.
M&T Second Friday goes outside for this very special event!
Falling in love is for all ages by Aaron Mansfield in The Buffalo News
It was 1998 when the Eclectic Improv Company debuted its unscripted zaniness in Bobby Militello’s Tralfamadore Cafe. Now, after holding forth in a monthly show for many years in the nearby Shea’s Smith Theater, the group has reached a milestone.
Lots and lots of boxes of photos of CCR's art work. The subjects include: animals, equestrian works (not to be confused with his polo playing), female figures, male figures, fountains, public works, and memorials.
Painter Alberto Rey’s exhibition Biological Regionalism: Scajaquada Creek, Erie County, New York, USA, on view at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo through June 2, makes a strong case for unflinching realism in landscape painting and signals a new way of thinking about the role of landscape art in the 21st century.
As someone utilizing this internship as a stepping stone in deciding what avenue I would like to explore after graduating this spring with a degree in Art History, it has been such a great experience to see all of the amazing materials housed in the Burchfield Penney first-hand.