The Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College will host a major retrospective of work by American artist Charles E. Burchfield, Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield, from March 7 to May 23.

Selected as one of the top 10 exhibitions of 2009 by the New Yorker magazine and the Los Angeles Times when it debuted at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles last fall, the exhibition includes more than 80 major watercolors, drawings, and oil paintings from private and public collections, as well as paintings and sketches seldom if ever seen by the public. The show has also drawn praise from critics at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.

Curated by artist Robert Gober and organized by the Hammer in collaboration with the Burchfield Penney, the show combines artwork and biographical material to provide new insights into Burchfield’s creative vision and artistic process. The exhibition will travel next to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.