A UE Field Trip: September 18, 2024 - starting at 10:15am. ** Tours will start every 30 minutes until 2:15.
UE is going back on location to celebrate and explore the work of an American master for round two! Join us for a docent-led tour at The Burchfield Penney Art Center, which is home to the largest public collection of works by Charles E. Burchfield.
For an ongoing series of exhibitions that explore how the work of Charles E. Burchfield relates to work by other artists, the Burchfield Penney Art Center compares Burchfield and the American poet Walt Whitman. Burchfield’s poetic journal writings about nature mirror his expressive paintings and drawings. Indeed, around 1956 he was quoted as saying, “I am seeking simplified reaffirmation of some of my early period. I want to praise and exalt nature as Walt Whitman has done in Leaves of Grass.” The exhibition shows how their parallel perceptions of nature were expressed both visually and textually, focusing on Whitman's prose published in Specimen Days. Burchfield Scholar Nancy Weekly co-curated the exhibition with Whitman scholar Sam Magavern, who wrote the major catalog essay and has worked with actors from Ujima Company to create films and recordings of writings by Whitman and Burchfield.
Join us to celebrate the “Embracing Earth: Burchfield & Whitman” – and see the how their mutual appreciation of nature is reflected in vivid descriptions that also come alive in the artist’s watercolors and drawings (and so much more)!!
(Parking at the Burchfield will be waived for UE guests, who are welcome to park in the adjacent lot for their tour. Wheelchairs available & can be reserved in advance by calling 716-878-6011.)