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The Burchfield Penney Art Center houses the largest collection of Charles E. Burchfield (1983-1967) works and archival materials in the world, and is a proud to be an international resource for scholars, curators, students and the public. Many of our thought-provoking exhibitions continue to attract visitors from throughout the country and around the globe, even as we remain dedicated to our mission of supporting Western New York art.

For information on available exhibitions and works from the Burchfield Penney's collection, please call 716-878-4143 or email travelex@buffalostate.edu.

Charles E. Burchfield: Weather Event

Weather Event focuses on Charles E. Burchfield’s depictions of the weather south of Lake Erie, where the artist lived for most of his life. Individual weather events are examined through both an artistic and scientific lens.
Burchfield's representations of weather, wind, skies and sounds are unique historical records of the environment near Lake Erie. In 1915, Burchfield made a series of sketches that show the changing weather and position of the sun over the course of several hours, which he called all-day sketches. Decades later, a 1950 journal entry recounts "The Day the Sun Disappeared over Western New York." In these unique instances and others the visitor experiences the landscape through Burchfield's eyes. Working with climatologist and Buffalo State College professor Stephen Vermette, Ph.D., we present the dramatic and complex natural phenomenon chronicled in more than 50 years of Burchfield's writings, drawings and paintings.

For more information on Charles E. Burchfield: Weather Event, please see the exhibition page.

Required space: Approximately 205 linear feet
Works: 46 (additions and editing possible)
Catalog: paperback with essays by Tullis Johnson and Stephen Vermette, PhD.
Archival Material: 22 objects
Resources: labels, digital gallery guide and other didactic material
Booking period: 12 weeks

James Vullo: Deconstructing Urbania

Although artist James Vullo (1914-1999) created works in varied styles – ashcan realism, abstract cubism and landscape minimalism – at different periods in his life, his focus was always on the environment with which he was most familiar: the city and its surroundings. In his early work he depicted the darker realities of early 20th century Western New York with its growing industrial base. By mid-career, his work evolved from representations of isolated urbanism to panes of color – a visual celebration of the geometry and beauty of the architecture in the region. And his style would change dramatically again when, in his later years, he stripped away intense cubic color constructions to settle into monochromatic landscapes. Throughout his life he depicted his changing aesthetic view of a changing world – and then as now, his unique altered landscapes give audiences a sense of his perspective.

For more information on James Vullo: Deconstructing Urbania, please see the exhibition page.

Required space: Approximately 600 linear feet
Works: 55 (additions and editing possible)
Catalog: paperback with essay by Valerie Ann Leads
Archival Material: 50 sketches and related articles
Resources: labels and other didactic material
Other: Up to 25 artist-made kites
Booking period: 12 weeks

McCallum Tarry: Intersections

"In an extraordinarily diverse and challenging body of work, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry focus on place, face, and narrative. Racism and other injustices are the mediating and complicating factors, often startling, always politically as well as aesthetically motivated in subtle and unexpected ways." -Lucy R. Lippard, Writer, Activist and Curator

Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry’s art connects with community. That is its core value. Their subjects are race, identity, and injustice. As a bi-racial couple, their work is political, historic and contemporary.

For more information on McCallum Tarry: Intersections, please see the exhibition page.

Required space: Approximately 1,800 linear feet
Works: Over 125 works, including paintings and video installations (additions and editing possible)
Catalog: in development, with essays planned by Janet Dees, Eva Diaz, Lucy Lippard, Courtney Martin and Scott Propeack
Resources: labels and other didactic material
Booking period: 12 weeks

Spain: Rock, Roll, Rumbles, Rebels, & Revolution

Spain: Rock, Roll, Rumbles, Rebels, & Revolution is an in-depth career retrospective of the graphic works, iconic characters, and recurring motifs of Manuel “Spain” Rodriguez, the Buffalo-born comic book artist who, in the late 1960s, was a close colleague of and frequent collaborator with the first generation of underground “comix” artists, both on the Lower East of NYC and in San Francisco (R. Crumb, Kim Deitch, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Bill Griffith, Vaughn Bode, et al.) and who,—along with and as much as any of them— profoundly influenced the graphic and compositional style, thematic content, and political sensibilities of two subsequent generations of graphic literature creators.

For more information on Spain: Rock, Roll, Rumbles, Rebels, & Revolution, please see the exhibition page.

Required space: Approximately 600 linear feet
Works: 75 (additions and editing possible)
Catalog: paperback with essays by Anthony Bannon, PhD., Edmund Cardoni and Donald Metz
Resources: labels and other didactic material
Other: 10-min documentary by Susan Stern, filmmaker and investigative journalist
Booking period: 12 weeks