Modernists in New Mexico: Works from a Private Collector
February 13, 2009 - May 10, 2009
Curator: Alan Braddock, Associate Curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
In 1916, the painter Robert Henri left New York for the first of three visits to Santa Fe in search of new artistic inspiration. He did so at a pivotal moment in the early history of American Modernism, during the Great War and amid the aftermath of the sensational Armory Show in New York, when many of his compatriots were responding inventively to the aesthetic challenge posed by the European avant-garde. Captivated by the beautiful, unfamiliar western places and peoples of New Mexico, Henri encouraged two close friends and colleagues – George Bellows and John Sloan – to follow his lead. Before long, many American Modernists trekked to New Mexico as well, including Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Edward Hopper. Some visited only once or stayed for just a short time while others (notably O’Keeffe and Sloan) became long-time residents; for all these American Modernists, though, visiting and picturing New Mexico became an artistic rite of passage of sorts – a catalyst for aesthetic reinvention.
This exhibition from the collection of an anonymous New Mexico collector provides an excellent selection of American Modernist visions of New Mexico during the first half of the twentieth-century. Since he moved to Santa Fe eleven years ago and saw one of John Marin’s New Mexico pictures at a local gallery, the owner of this collection has passionately pursued his love of American Modernism by collecting works that creatively engage the area’s distinctive environments, landmarks, and residents while also participating in an emerging international artistic movement. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is delighted to be able to exhibit this superb selection, which demonstrates the richly productive encounter between some of America’s most innovative twentieth-century painters and one of their favorite sources of inspiration.
Curator: Alan Braddock, Associate Curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
In 1916, the painter Robert Henri left New York for the first of three visits to Santa Fe in search of new artistic inspiration. He did so at a pivotal moment in the early history of American Modernism, during the Great War and amid the aftermath of the sensational Armory Show in New York, when many of his compatriots were responding inventively to the aesthetic challenge posed by the European avant-garde. Captivated by the beautiful, unfamiliar western places and peoples of New Mexico, Henri encouraged two close friends and colleagues – George Bellows and John Sloan – to follow his lead. Before long, many American Modernists trekked to New Mexico as well, including Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Stuart Davis, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Edward Hopper. Some visited only once or stayed for just a short time while others (notably O’Keeffe and Sloan) became long-time residents; for all these American Modernists, though, visiting and picturing New Mexico became an artistic rite of passage of sorts – a catalyst for aesthetic reinvention.
This exhibition from the collection of an anonymous New Mexico collector provides an excellent selection of American Modernist visions of New Mexico during the first half of the twentieth-century. Since he moved to Santa Fe eleven years ago and saw one of John Marin’s New Mexico pictures at a local gallery, the owner of this collection has passionately pursued his love of American Modernism by collecting works that creatively engage the area’s distinctive environments, landmarks, and residents while also participating in an emerging international artistic movement. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is delighted to be able to exhibit this superb selection, which demonstrates the richly productive encounter between some of America’s most innovative twentieth-century painters and one of their favorite sources of inspiration.
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity
September 26, 2008 - February 01, 2009
American artists from Alfred Stieglitz to Andy Warhol have been enthralled by the image of Georgia O’Keeffe as a woman, painter, and celebrity. Georgia O’Keeffe: The Art of Identity is the first exhibition to explore the close relationship between her art, photographic images of the artist, and the public perception of her career. By juxtaposing paintings and photographs, the exhibition reveals the changes that occurred between Stieglitz’s early photographs in the 1910s of the young, relatively unknown O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol’s 1970s images of O’Keeffe, who had become the grande dame of the art world.
The exhibition will feature examples of O’Keeffe’s art that represent major developments of her work, such as works she completed in New York, then in New Mexico of both landscapes in the 1930s and architectural studies from the 1940s through the 1960s of her Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu houses. Because O’Keeffe’s artistic reputation and fame were largely established for critics and popular audiences alike through the medium of photography, the exhibition will also feature photographs of O’Keeffe taken by leading American photographers including Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Balthazar Korab, George Daniell, John Loengard, Arnold Newman, Laura Gilpin, Irving Penn, Eliot Porter, Andy Warhol, and Todd Webb.
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity was co-organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Portland Museum of Art. This exhibition has been made possible in part by The Burnett Foundation. Additional support for this exhibition and related programming has been received from The Annenberg Foundation, Kerr Foundation, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and 1% Lodgers’ Tax, New Mexico Tourism Department, New Mexico Arts (a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs), JP Morgan Chase Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Kaiserman-Robinson Family, MSST Foundation, and Members of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
American artists from Alfred Stieglitz to Andy Warhol have been enthralled by the image of Georgia O’Keeffe as a woman, painter, and celebrity. Georgia O’Keeffe: The Art of Identity is the first exhibition to explore the close relationship between her art, photographic images of the artist, and the public perception of her career. By juxtaposing paintings and photographs, the exhibition reveals the changes that occurred between Stieglitz’s early photographs in the 1910s of the young, relatively unknown O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol’s 1970s images of O’Keeffe, who had become the grande dame of the art world.
The exhibition will feature examples of O’Keeffe’s art that represent major developments of her work, such as works she completed in New York, then in New Mexico of both landscapes in the 1930s and architectural studies from the 1940s through the 1960s of her Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu houses. Because O’Keeffe’s artistic reputation and fame were largely established for critics and popular audiences alike through the medium of photography, the exhibition will also feature photographs of O’Keeffe taken by leading American photographers including Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Balthazar Korab, George Daniell, John Loengard, Arnold Newman, Laura Gilpin, Irving Penn, Eliot Porter, Andy Warhol, and Todd Webb.
Georgia O’Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity was co-organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Portland Museum of Art. This exhibition has been made possible in part by The Burnett Foundation. Additional support for this exhibition and related programming has been received from The Annenberg Foundation, Kerr Foundation, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and 1% Lodgers’ Tax, New Mexico Tourism Department, New Mexico Arts (a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs), JP Morgan Chase Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Kaiserman-Robinson Family, MSST Foundation, and Members of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
O'Keeffe in New Mexico: At the Education Annex
September 08, 2008 - September 25, 2008
Marie Chabot and Georgia O'Keeffe became lifelong friends when they met in New Mexico in 1940. Chabot was 26 and an aspiring writer and O'Keeffe was 53 and one of America's most important artists. From 1941 to 1944, Chabot spent summers at the artist's Ghost Ranch house, and from 1946 to 1949, Chabot oversaw the restoration of O'Keeffe's Abiquiu house. All during this time, Chabot took photographs, some of which are on display in this exhibition. In addition, at 3:30 PM daily, the award-winning film Georgia O'Keeffe by Perry Miller Adato will be shown. In this documentary, O'Keeffe discusses her life and art. (60 minutes)
Education Annex, 123 Grant Avenue.
10 AM to 5 PM daily. FREE.
Marie Chabot and Georgia O'Keeffe became lifelong friends when they met in New Mexico in 1940. Chabot was 26 and an aspiring writer and O'Keeffe was 53 and one of America's most important artists. From 1941 to 1944, Chabot spent summers at the artist's Ghost Ranch house, and from 1946 to 1949, Chabot oversaw the restoration of O'Keeffe's Abiquiu house. All during this time, Chabot took photographs, some of which are on display in this exhibition. In addition, at 3:30 PM daily, the award-winning film Georgia O'Keeffe by Perry Miller Adato will be shown. In this documentary, O'Keeffe discusses her life and art. (60 minutes)
Education Annex, 123 Grant Avenue.
10 AM to 5 PM daily. FREE.
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinitie
May 23, 2008 - September 07, 2008
Anne Hammond, Guest Curator
INTERACT WITH A VIEW CAMERA
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is pleased to present Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, an exhibition that brings together, for the first time, approximately 97 works by two of America’s best-known artists. The exhibition demonstrates the Museum’s ongoing commitment to presenting O’Keeffe’s work together with that of her contemporaries, and to defining her achievement within the context of American Modernism (1890s–present).
O’Keeffe and Adams met in Taos, New Mexico, in 1929, an encounter that initiated a lifelong friendship. In 1933, Adams traveled for the first time from California to New York, where he met O’Keeffe’s husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the éminence grise of American Modernist photography. The three became friends, and on subsequent trips to New York, Adams always visited and spent time with Stieglitz and O’Keeffe.
Adams and O’Keeffe shared a profound appreciation of the natural world. In 1937, they traveled with other friends to explore sites in the Southwest, and in 1938, O’Keeffe and others joined Adams for a pack trip in the Yosemite High Sierra. O’Keeffe and Adams wrote one another from time to time, and portions of Adams’s last visit with O’Keeffe, at her Abiquiu house in 1981, were included in Ansel Adams: Photographer (1981), a documentary film of his life and art.
During their lifetimes, O’Keeffe and Adams became two of America’s most celebrated icons. This exhibition—the first exploration of these artists together and of the significance of their achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them—clarifies the various parallels between their distinctive visions of the natural world.
Anne Hammond, an Honorary Research Scholar at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Research Center in 2001 and a specialist in the work of Ansel Adams, is the exhibition’s guest curator. Little, Brown, and Company has published the exhibition catalogue, which includes essays by: journalist Richard B. Woodard; Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and the Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities was organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
MetLife Foundation - Lead National Sponsor
This exhibition has been made possible in part by the MetLife Foundation, the exhibition’s Lead National Sponsor, The Henry Luce Foundation, and The Burnett Foundation. Additional support for this exhibition and for related programs has been received from The Annenberg Foundation, The Kerr Foundation, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission 1% Lodgers’ Tax, New Mexico Arts (a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs), JP Morgan Chase Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Kaiserman-Robinson Family, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s National Council, and Members of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
Anne Hammond, Guest Curator
INTERACT WITH A VIEW CAMERA
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is pleased to present Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities, an exhibition that brings together, for the first time, approximately 97 works by two of America’s best-known artists. The exhibition demonstrates the Museum’s ongoing commitment to presenting O’Keeffe’s work together with that of her contemporaries, and to defining her achievement within the context of American Modernism (1890s–present).
O’Keeffe and Adams met in Taos, New Mexico, in 1929, an encounter that initiated a lifelong friendship. In 1933, Adams traveled for the first time from California to New York, where he met O’Keeffe’s husband, Alfred Stieglitz, the éminence grise of American Modernist photography. The three became friends, and on subsequent trips to New York, Adams always visited and spent time with Stieglitz and O’Keeffe.
Adams and O’Keeffe shared a profound appreciation of the natural world. In 1937, they traveled with other friends to explore sites in the Southwest, and in 1938, O’Keeffe and others joined Adams for a pack trip in the Yosemite High Sierra. O’Keeffe and Adams wrote one another from time to time, and portions of Adams’s last visit with O’Keeffe, at her Abiquiu house in 1981, were included in Ansel Adams: Photographer (1981), a documentary film of his life and art.
During their lifetimes, O’Keeffe and Adams became two of America’s most celebrated icons. This exhibition—the first exploration of these artists together and of the significance of their achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them—clarifies the various parallels between their distinctive visions of the natural world.
Anne Hammond, an Honorary Research Scholar at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Research Center in 2001 and a specialist in the work of Ansel Adams, is the exhibition’s guest curator. Little, Brown, and Company has published the exhibition catalogue, which includes essays by: journalist Richard B. Woodard; Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and the Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities was organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
MetLife Foundation - Lead National Sponsor
This exhibition has been made possible in part by the MetLife Foundation, the exhibition’s Lead National Sponsor, The Henry Luce Foundation, and The Burnett Foundation. Additional support for this exhibition and for related programs has been received from The Annenberg Foundation, The Kerr Foundation, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission 1% Lodgers’ Tax, New Mexico Arts (a Division of the Department of Cultural Affairs), JP Morgan Chase Foundation, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Kaiserman-Robinson Family, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s National Council, and Members of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
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
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
