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Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2015Three Watercolor Masters: What Homer, Hopper, and Burchfield Want to Say to Us - October 18
Philip Koch, the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s second artist in residence, will present a slide lecture on the watercolors of Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Charles Burchfield on Sunday, October 18, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. in the Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium.
Koch will analyze examples of each artist's work to explain why their paintings are so visually powerful and why their work has important lessons for us today.
Koch is a prominent contemporary landscape painter with a long-term interest in the work of Charles Burchfield. A native of Rochester, New York, he turned from abstraction to landscape painting early in his career, inspired by the richness of Western New York’s countryside. He has been granted unprecedented access to the privately held former studio of Burchfield’s friend Edward Hopper, enjoying 15 residencies there since 1983. Koch is a senior professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of 15 American art museums.
This event is free with museum admission and is part of the International Center for Watercolor.
