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A lecture and discussion, My Appreciation of Watercolor: A Personal View – Nancy Weekly: Strictly Burchfieldian, will be held Friday, December 6, from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Admission for students, staff, and faculty is free.

In the 20th century, Charles E. Burchfield took watercolor painting to an advanced stage of complexity and realization that has remained completely unique to this day. Foreshadowing Marshall McLuhan, who asserted “The medium is the message,” Burchfield took command of the watercolor medium to expound his ideas about nature, humanity, sound, and the cosmos. He was not without a sense of humor, revealing in an interview: “I am often asked by people, ‘Just what is your style of painting?’ I baffle them by saying, ‘I hope it is strictly Burchfieldian.’”