Conversations on Art: Robert Gober and Donna De Salvo on Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
Wed, Sept 15, 2010
7 pm
Charles Burchfield, The Song of the Katydids on an August Morning, 1917. Watercolor, gouache, graphite, colored chalks, and pastel on off-white wove paper, 18 × 21 3/4 in. (45.1 × 55.2 cm). Karen and Kevin Kennedy Collection
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Celebrated by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Charles Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today. Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield provides the most comprehensive examination to date of this modernist master. Join Robert Gober, acclaimed sculptor and curator of Heat Waves in a Swamp, and Donna De Salvo, Whitney chief curator, as they discuss Burchfield, the exhibition, his subjects, and his process.
$8 general admission; $6 senior citizens and students; free for members.
