One Poet's Notes (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Rust Red Hills Georgia O’Keeffe Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin on this date (November 15) in 1887; therefore, I believe today is an appropriate occasion for inviting visitors to read Gregg Hertzlieb’s splendid commentary on O’Keeffe’s Rust Red Hills (pictured above), cover art for the current issue of Valparaiso Poetry Review . Since the Fall/Winter...
Song of a Reformed Headhunter (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
With JS I saw the show "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction" at the Whitney last night. Known for her representational art (flowers, landscapes), O'Keeffe began in the 1920's as an abstract painter, and abstract painting continued to inform her dominant mode. The early charcoal drawings, which Alfred Stieglitz saw and showed at his NY gallery, were striking. In shades of gray that resemble early...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
NASHVILLE, TN.- The Frist Center for the Visual Arts closes the 2009 exhibition year and welcomes the new with Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on view in the Ingram Gallery from Oct. 2, 2009 through January 31, 2010. Featuring 45 paintings and eight photographs by such American masters as Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles...
Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
In 1975 the Baltimore Museum of Art included a number of Anne Truitt's Arundel paintings in an exhibition. The works are white, starkly white, with a little white paint on top, and some marks in graphite. I've never seen one, so that's all I know about them. When they were exhibited at the BMA they caused something of a fuss. Truitt told the story in Daybook , her now-legendary journal: ... I encountered...
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The steamy correspondence between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz has been kept under seal for 20 years. Judith Dobrzynski reveals their epistolary romance. VIEW OUR GALLERY. When Georgia O'Keeffe met photographer Alfred Stieglitz, sparks flew....
Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
“Red and Orange Streak” (1919) is part of Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction at the Whitney. (Philadelphia Museum of Art) There are two Georgia O’Keeffes. They’re closely related, but one is far more interesting than the other. Not so interesting, except maybe as a marketing phenomenon, is the post-1930s cow-skull painter and striker of frontier-priestess poses. More interesting,...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- The artistic achievement of Georgia O'Keeffe is examined from a fresh perspective in Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction, a landmark exhibition debuting this fall at the Whitney Museum of American Art . While O'Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been recognized as one of the central figures in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she created throughout her long career has remained less...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
New York Observer publishing reporter Leon Neyfakh has shifted beats, moving from the book world to the art scene--marking the change with a new article about a Georgia O'Keeffe exhibition. During his publishing reporting days, Neyfakh profiled celebrated novelist Rivka Galchen , carefully tracked the state of Rob Lowe 's memoir, and covered one of publishing's darkest days . GalleyCat caught up with...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
There are two types of people Barbara Haskell hopes to surprise with the Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition opening on Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Whitney Museum of American Art: those who love O’Keeffe for her famous flowers and those who deride her for them. The show, which consists of more than 130 pieces, highlights O’Keeffe’s little known abstract works, many of which she made...
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) just wrapped up an exhibition exploring the relationship between Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams, two important American artists of the past century. Even though the exhibition is now closed, the SFMOMA web site still hosts a series of videos featuring Ansel Adams discussing his work. Here, Adams [...]
WalletPop Blog (Free subscription) | 08/28/2009
Filed under: Extracurriculars , Travel Each September, hundreds of U.S. museums celebrate Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day by opening their doors and waiving admission fees. On Saturday, Sept. 26, more than 800 participating locations will give free entry to those who download and print the admission card on the magazine's web site. These aren't your American-Museum-of-Whoopee-Cushions-type museums,...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
"The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum may represent the painter's estate but has no right to an art collection she donated to Fisk University, Tennessee's Court of Appeals has ruled. ... The financially struggling university had asked a lower court for permission to sell two of the works" and to allow "a proposed $30 million arrangement to share the collection with the Crystal Bridges Museum...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- The life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe have fascinated critics, scholars, and art lovers alike since she burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1900s. On June 7, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute adds a chapter to this story with the first exhibition to explore the role of the influential American modernist painter Arthur Dove as the key figure in O'Keeffe's development...
The Daily Gazette stories (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
“Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence,” this summer’s big show at the Clark Art Institute, is the first exhibit to deeply explore the lifelong bond of inspiration and admiration between two American Modernists: Georgia O'Keeffe and Arthur Dove.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA – The life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe have fascinated critics, scholars, and art lovers alike since she burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1900s. On June 7, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute adds a chapter to this story with the first exhibition to explore the role of the influential American modernist painter Arthur Dove as the key figure in...
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