Research Center MissionThe Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, a component of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, sponsors research in American Modernism (late nineteenth century to present) by awarding stipends to historians in the fields of art, architecture and design, literature, music and photography and to museum professionals who wish to organize an exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center opened in July 2001 as the only museum-related research facility in the world dedicated to the study of American Modernism (late nineteenth century – present). |  |
Research Center Facts
- Dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of Georgia O'Keeffe and to the study and interpretation of American Modernism (late nineteenth century – present), the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center opened on July 13, 2001 during a three-day symposium entitled "Defining American Modernism". It is the only Research Center devoted to American Modernism.
- The Research Center offers a quiet, contemplative, minimalist environment, whose esthetics mirror those of O’Keeffe’s houses in Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch.
- An extensive research library includes the libraries O'Keeffe maintained at her Abiquiu and Ghost Ranch houses, archives with a wide variety of documents and correspondence pertaining to O'Keeffe, and all of the personal, tangible property O'Keeffe owned at the time of her death in 1986, such as artist materials and found objects.
- Six stipends are awarded annually to scholars pursuing projects related to the study of American Modernism. Areas of study include art history, architectural history and design, literature, music and photography. One stipend can be awarded to a museum curator interested in organizing an exhibition on American Modernism at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
- The houses at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu, where O'Keeffe lived and worked part of each year beginning in the mid-1930s and late-1940s respectively, are also components of the Research Center. Surrounded by the stunning landscape configurations that intrigued O'Keeffe and inspired her work, both houses offer scholars an especially rich context for the further understanding of O'Keeffe's art and esthetic.
- The Research Center has hosted six symposia (3 onsite and 3 online). Those onsite include: “Defining American Modernism” (2001), “Painting and Photography in American Art: Sources, Ideas, and Influences, 1890s to the Present” (2006), and “Challenging 1945: Exploring Continuities in American Art, 1890s to the Present” (2011). Those online include: "The Modern/Postmodern Dialectic: American Art and Culture, 1965-2000" (2001), “The 1980’s: An Internet Conference” (2003), and “Museums of Tomorrow: An Internet Conference” (2005). These online conferences archived and available on our website. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Book Prize program began in 2009. A cash prize of $5,000 will be awarded every three years to the author(s) of a book on some aspect of American modernism (late nineteenth century - present), including architecture, criticism, design, methodology, painting, photography, sculpture, and related subjects, published from the mid-1980s to 2009. The first award was made in 2009 and then next will be made in 2012. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
- Housed in the historic late 19th century Bergere House at 135 Grant Street in Santa Fe, the Research Center is located several blocks from the Santa Fe Plaza and one block from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. The renovated building and a new structure were designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects of New York.
- Thanks to a gift from the Barbara Goede Family Foundation, the Research Center Garden has been enhanced with flowering plants that were subjects in Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings.
- Barbara Buhler Lynes is the Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Research Center and the curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Lynes is a scholar of American Modernism and the leading expert on O'Keeffe. Lynes has written extensively on Georgia O'Keeffe and is the author of Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Yale Press, 1999).
Research Center Staff
Curator and Emily Fisher Landau Director
Barbara Buhler Lynes 505.946.1002 Associate Curator Carolyn Kastner 505.946.1088 Librarian and Assistant Director Eumie Imm-Stroukoff 505.946.1011 Archives and Digital Collections Librarian Elizabeth Ehrnst 505.946.1010 | Contact
Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center
135 Grant Avenue Santa Fe, NM 87501 Telephone 505.946.1011 center@okeeffemuseum.org Questions Stipend Program: center@okeeffemuseum.org Library and Archives: library@okeeffemuseum.org |
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