A Celebration of New Works
Recent Gifts, Promised Gifts and Extended Loans
February 10, 2006 - June 04, 2006

Museum Curator Barbara Buhler Lynes has organized “A Celebration of New Works” to highlight some of the 845 works that are new to the Museum’s collection.

“New Works” will highlight many of the works on paper that are among the 831 works (drawings, paintings, and sculpture dating from 1901 to 1984) by Georgia O’Keeffe that will be conveyed to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum by March 6, 2006, when the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation transfers all of its assets to the Museum. Most of the works on paper have never or rarely been exhibited, such as “Morning Sky with Houses,” 1916, completed shortly after O’Keeffe’s arrival in fall 1916 in Canyon, Texas, where she lived and taught until early in 1918. Also in Canyon, in 1917, O’Keeffe completed 13 nude self-portraits in watercolor. The transfer brings the Museum four of these portraits, which increases its holdings of these self-portraits to eight.