Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle

September 21, 2007 - January 13, 2008



The more than 80 images in this exhibition, organized by former Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center Scholar Kathleen Pyne, reveal for the first time how various women artists in the Stieglitz circle paved the way for O'Keeffe's emergence in 1915. They include, among others, photographers Gertrude Käsebier and Anne Brigman, and painters Pamela Colman Smith and Katharine Nash Rhoades. Their work laid the groundwork for the idea that women artists possessed a powerful creativity equal to that of men, and their stunning images convinced Alfred Stieglitz and his New York audiences that women could reveal a new and uniquely feminine perspective on modern experience.

This exhibition and related programs were made possible in part by support from The Burnett Foundation, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission 1% Lodgers Tax, the New Mexico Department of Tourism, New Mexico Arts (a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs), the National Endowment for the Arts, The Kerr Foundation, and the Members of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Co-organized by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

Other Exhibition Dates:

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
February 9 - May 4, 2008

San Diego Museum of Art
May 24 - September 28, 2008