Burchfield Penney Art Center

The Burchfield Penney Art Center will catalog, digitize, bring online, and publicize the Charles E. Burchfield Archive, which documents the life and work of the prolific and influential twentieth-century American artist and naturalist. The current Archive's use is limited by its location and the fragile or unique nature of the collection items. This project will create digital images of nearly 9,000 works on paper and textual objects for use on the center's website and in educational materials which will also be made available online. The center will use quantitative and qualitative analytics to assess the benefits this project will bring to art collectors, curators, historians, and fans of American art, with the goal of reaching 30,000 visits to the digital archive annually.