Founded at Buffalo State College in 1966, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center is a museum dedicated to arguably the most important twentieth-century American watercolorist, Charles E. Burchfield. Burchfield spent the majority of his life living and painting right here in Western New York.

The Center holds the world's largest Burchfield collection, comprised of over 680 art works that comprehensively represent the artist's career through paintings, drawings, doodles, prints, wallpapers, and commercial designs. The museum is the national study center for Charles E. Burchfield holdings. It includes an extensive archive that includes his correspondence and personal journals, as well as an elaborate re-creation of his artists studio.

From 1991 through 1994, the Center received a series of gifts from collector Dr. Charles Rand Penney of more than l,300 works by Western New York artists. This donation included paintings, sculpture, craft art, Roycroft objects, and 184 works by Charles E. Burchfield. In recognition of this tremendous donation, as well as his ongoing support of the arts, the Burchfield Art Center was rededicated as the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in 1994.

Center exhibitions are selected and organized to be innovative and educational in order to provide various audiences with a broad experience of unique regional artistic achievements and cultural history.

Through its affiliation with Buffalo State College, the museum encourages learning and celebrates our richly creative and diverse community. The Center is a multifaceted cultural forum for the arts and regularly hosts readings of poetry and prose, concerts, performances, workshops, and lectures and panel discussions related to exhibitions.

Museum Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Monday and major holidays: Closed

The Burchfield-Penney Art Center will be closed on Friday, November 11 in honor of Veteran's Day, Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25 to celebrate Thanksgiving, December 25 and 26 for Christmas and January 1 and 2 to celebrate New Year.

Admission:
$5 adults
$4 seniors 65+
$3 children over 7 and students Free:
Buffalo State students; members

Free Saturdays: 10:00 a.m.-noon