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Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2014Watercolor in the Gallery, Inspired by 'Burchfields Botanicals'
The Burchfield Penney Art Center will open the exhibition Burchfield Botanicals for watercolorists to paint in the gallery on Friday, October 30, from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. The featured painting will be On Violets and Arrowheads.
Novice paint sets will be available for a $5 rental fee. Participants must check in at admissions before heading to the gallery to sketch, draw, and paint. Only watercolor paint and watercolor pencils will be allowed. Water must be kept in a brush container. Stools will be provided. The workshop is free with gallery admission.
Between the years 1908 and 1911, Charles E. Burchfield created nearly 500 botanical sketches that show the different wildflowers and plants he found in the forests and fields around his childhood home in Salem, Ohio. These sketches are an important document of Burchfield’s early fascination with the natural world.
The exhibition Burchfield Botanicals features Burchfield's masterworks, paired with these botanical sketches and objects from the Marchand Wildflower Collection at the Buffalo Museum of Science. Paul Marchand created "scientifically accurate and artistically superb casts of flowers and mushrooms" as well as dioramas for the museum throughout his career.
For further information, please contact Kathy G. Shiroki, ext. 3549.
