Heights and sights, hiking and dining Mar 16, 2008
"We hiked along Indian trails up into Indian ruins, where you have to climb ladders. On one, we climbed a half dozen ladders and up into caves where we could walk around." Another hike was in Abiquiu, where artist Georgia O'Keeffe worked and lived. At the nearby Echo Amphitheater, they stopped for a holler. (Boston Globe)
Overlooked But Groundbreaking Mar 15, 2008
(03-14) 04:00 PDT Washington, D.C. -- For almost 20 years, Susan Fisher Sterling has watched visitors come into the National Museum of Women in the Arts to study the works of Frida Kahlo, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keeffe and Elizabeth Catlett. Last week, she took charge of the country's only museum dedicated to female artists. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Judge: Fisk U. should keep art collection donated by Georgia O'Keeffe, put works on display Mar 8, 2008
(AP) - A judge has ruled that Fisk University broke the terms of a donation from painter Georgia O'Keeffe but shouldn't lose its art collection to a New Mexico museum ... The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico sued to gain control of the collection because of the school's attempts to sell paintings and because they weren't on display. (KOLD.com, AZ)
Judge Says College Can Keep Its O'Keeffes Mar 7, 2008
A judge has ruled that Fisk University broke the terms of a donation from painter Georgia O'Keeffe, but shouldn't lose its art collection to a New Mexico museum ... (CBS/AP) A judge has ruled that Fisk University broke the terms of a donation from painter Georgia O'Keeffe, but shouldn't lose its art collection to a New Mexico museum ... The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico had sued to gain the rights over the collection because of the schools' attempts to sell paintings and because they... (CBS News)
O'Keeffe Museum argues Fisk should forfeit prized art collection Feb 20, 2008
- Attorneys for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico argued on Tuesday that Fisk University has violated the terms of an agreement with the late painter and should forfeit a prized art collection she donated. In the opening day of the trial over the 101-piece Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art, lawyers for the museum set out to show that Fisk repeatedly violated the conditions of the gift O'Keeffe gave to the school in 1949. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Museum highlights O'Keeffe, peers Feb 19, 2008
Exhibit at High gives fresh context for Georgia O'Keeffe, contemporaries ... Georgia O'Keeffe's bold florals and desert scenes hold a vital place in American modernism ... ART REVIEW "Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle" Through May 4. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Bush terrors rise from the darkness Feb 14, 2008
"It reminded me of Taos, New Mexico, where painter Georgia O'Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz once lived and worked it's about the same altitude. And the light was amazing. "And Sydney's not what it was. There are so many changes photography has a kind of bland internationalism. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Santa Fe satisfies travelers hungry for food and art Jan 28, 2008
More recently, Georgia O'Keeffe used the New Mexico desert as a palette for her version of an "American Modernism" style. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in downtown Santa Fe is a must-see while you're here ... GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM. It's the only museum in America dedicated to a woman -- and the most popular in Santa Fe. (Anchorage Daily News)
'The collection is central' Jan 28, 2008
A relaxed portrait of Janis Joplin by Frances Scavullo shares a wall with Irvin Penn's beautifully composed version of the pivotal early 20th-century American painter John Marin and another portrait, picturing Marin's colleague and friend Georgia O'Keeffe, in a famous image by Arnold Newman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, NM (1968). Museum of Photographic Arts Arnold Newman, a pioneer of environmental portraits, is represented by "Georgia O'Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, NM" (1968) in an exhibition... (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Penn's Photographic Portraits Really Click Jan 18, 2008
But Georgia O'Keeffe - standing tall, head covered in a black cap - arches an eyebrow as if to say, "What next?". Easy - a show of Penn's latest work opens next month at Pace MacGill Gallery. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Teacher shows students the value of art Jan 17, 2008
" That said, Georgia O'Keeffe is Maggioncalda's favorite artist. "My favorite photographer is hard to pick, but I enjoy teaching my students about. Cindy Sherman, Annie Leibovitz and Olivia Parker," she added. Maggioncalda's teaching goals go way beyond her desire to perfect her students' brush strokes or improve their dexterity with camera gizmos. "I want to give my students an opportunity to learn not only about the history or art or photography but also how to create and develop an... (Springfield Sun, PA)
Caroline K. Keck, 99, pioneer of art conservation Jan 16, 2008
Caroline Keck, who was well known for her strong opinions, irreverent manner and salty language, also served as personal conservator for the painters Georgia O'Keeffe and Edwin Dickinson and for the art collection of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Sheldon Keck died in 1993. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
* Looters or saviors? Jan 3, 2008
Georgia O'Keeffe's Radiator Building - Night, New York could be sold to pull Fisk University back from the brink of financial ruin ... Fisk University, an historically black school in financial trouble, is sitting on a lottery ticket it cannot cash: a remarkable collection of 19th- and 20th-century art donated by the painter Georgia O'Keeffe ... " At issue is a collection of art that belonged to O'Keeffe's husband, the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. It includes what is considered one of... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Financially ailing Fisk University struggles to turn some of its art collection into cash Dec 29, 2007
(AP) _ Fisk University, a historically black school on the brink financially, is sitting on a lottery ticket it can't cash: a remarkable collection of 19th- and 20th-century art donated by the painter Georgia O'Keeffe ... But the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., the legal representative of the artist's estate, has asked a judge to disallow the deal, saying it was O'Keeffe's wish that the collection not be sold. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Visual Arts listings Dec 28, 2007
Nature and Abstraction: Georgia O'Keeffe; retrospective of 28 paintings by legendary Modernist, to Jan. 13 Emily Carr and the Group of Seven: New exhibition investigates ties between Carr and the renowned group, ongoing Roy Arden: Retrospective of works by Vancouver photographer, to Jan. 20. Modern Time: The films of London-based Canadian filmmaker Mark Lewis are projected on the gallery's walls, to Jan. 6. (Vancouver Sun)
Mission: Ornament - 6 weeks to create Dec 15, 2007
A Georgia O'Keeffe hung near a restroom, and heavy drapes framed the windows. Hallways were lined with golden pine cone wreaths, and everything glittered. (Missoulian, MT)
Is it art or just a urinal? Dec 5, 2007
Sorensen says he found inspiration in the large-scale close up flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. And unlike Duchamp, he always envisioned his artworks as functional, not just something to be mounted on a wall. (AZCentral -- Home)
Proposed Presidio museum would be modern addition to historic military site Dec 5, 2007
His firm, Gluckman Mayner Architects, has designed museums devoted to such artists as Georgia O'Keeffe and Andy Warhol as well as a wing of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York and a recent expansion of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Most of these projects have involved the renovation of existing structures or, in the case of the new home of the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the addition of a modern box of steel and translucent glass to a Mission-style former railroad baggage building. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Welcome To Sante Fe Nov 29, 2007
(CBS) With 300 days of sunshine a year baking 400-year-old adobe walls, year-round skiing in short-sleeves, and world-renowned art museums dotting the Georgia O'Keeffe Trail, it's easy to see why Outside Magazine selected Santa Fe, N.M., as one of the 30 Best Towns in America ... Opened in 1997, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum features over 1,000 works - in all media - of the namesake artist. (CBS News)
GMOA exhibit focuses on scenes in nature Nov 13, 2007
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Ansel Adams' photo proofs on view Nov 12, 2007
Jareckie also curated a 2003 exhibit at the Fitchburg museum of proofs from a 1937 camping trip Adams took with McAlpin and their mutual friend, artist Georgia O'Keeffe. The trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust in Mill Valley, Calif. (USA Today -- Life)
'Paved Paradise' delivers an affectionate tribute to the spirit of Joni Mitchell Nov 3, 2007
But things quickly turn more interesting, even before "Joni" introduces her band: bassist Vincent Van Gogh (Blake Newman) and, on keyboard, a pigtailed Georgia O'Keeffe (Zecca Esquibel) ... Then, as in the earlier surreal "Circle Game" singalong, encouraged by a swaying and beatific Georgia O'Keeffe, it feels as if there's really only one word for the way Kelly plays with a famous, complicated persona and with our own ideas of the person behind that mask. (Boston Globe)
Nauman lights up exhibition at Warhol Oct 31, 2007
Also at The Warhol is a small exhibition of O'Keeffe watercolors on loan from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M.. Don't expect her familiar vibrant washes of Southwestern landscape or sensual oversized florals. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Also at the VAG Oct 27, 2007
Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction Nature and Abstraction, organized jointly by the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the VAG, offers a fairly comprehensive introduction to this legendary American artist, but it leans a little bit too heavily on the legend part, including numerous photographs taken of the artist by her paramour, Alfred Stieglitz, as well as some by contemporary photographer Todd Eberle. There are, however, not as many paintings as one might like. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Judge Hears O'Keeffe Collection Offer Oct 24, 2007
-- Fisk University could run out of money if it's unable to sell its stake in an art collection donated by Georgia O'Keeffe, a lawyer for the historically black school said Tuesday ... Lawyers for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M. _ which represents the late artist's estate and opposes the Crystal Bridges deal _ said they could be ready for trial in February. (Newsmax)
Museum questioned in O'Keeffe sale Oct 23, 2007
By Erik Schelzig, Associated Press NASHVILLE The financially faltering Fisk University is seeking a quick ruling on whether it can sell a 50% stake in a 101-piece collection of artworks donated by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949. But first the college will have to overcome the protests of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, which has tried to force Fisk to forfeit the entire collection to it ... "Since the conditions (of the bequest) have been breached, the gift should revert to the museum, which... (USA Today -- Life)
Hemispheric inversion Oct 18, 2007
Moffatt's pantheon includes Indira Gandhi, 2007 Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, Georgia O'Keeffe, Bonnie Raitt and Grace Slick. Into this she mixes aboriginal women, most notably Oodgeroo Noonuccal, a poet and writer applauded as an early activist for aboriginal rights and cultural preservation. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Georgia O'Keeffe Oct 17, 2007
20th Century American Artist. Brief biography of the world-famous painter, known for her large floral portraits and boldly spare landscapes. (Suite101.com)
O'Keeffe Estate Challenges Fisk's Deal With Wal-Mart Heiress Oct 16, 2007
NASHVILLE, Tennessee Georgia O'Keeffe's most famous painting "Radiator Building Night, New York" and 100 other works won't be going to an Arkansas museum founded by a Wal-Mart heiress if lawyers representing the late artist's estate have their way. Lawyers for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, filed a legal challenge late Monday that seeks to prevent Fisk University from selling a stake in the collection donated by O'Keeffe to the historically black school ... That deal... (Fox News)
Chinese contemporary art auction tops estimates Oct 15, 2007
Farber, who retains enough Chinese art to fill his homes in New York and Florida, originally made his money buying and leasing stores in New York, while collecting U.S. painters like Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin. After a Hong Kong visit in 1995, he began buying Chinese art and has spent about $2 million on it, Farber said. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Chinese art market soars with economy Oct 15, 2007
Mr Farber originally made his money buying and leasing stores in New York, while collecting US painters such as Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin. After visiting Hong Kong in 1995 he began buying Chinese art, and had spent about $US2 million on it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Immodest proposals Oct 13, 2007
These are all intrinsically conservative; when we come to Alfred Stieglitz's image of Georgia O'Keeffe from nipple to knee, we are up against a similar conservatism. Stieglitz called his photograph A Portrait Torso; he believed that a portrait was composite and accretive, recreating the whole person through a galaxy of images. (Guardian Unlimited)
Petunias, cabbages - and O'Keeffe herself Oct 7, 2007
VANCOUVER -- Georgia O'Keeffe once tried to fix Richard D. Marshall's rental car ... The visit took place at O'Keeffe's house in Abiquiu, a home depicted abstractly in two large paintings featured in Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction, opening today at the Vancouver Art Gallery - and curated by Marshall ... The Georgia O'Keeffe-as-mechanic incident is symbolic of one of the things Marshall most admires about her: In what was pretty much exclusively a man's world, modern art, she was able... (Globe and Mail)
Vancouver gallery to show O'Keeffe at her most abstract Oct 6, 2007
A retrospective of American modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe opening in Vancouver stretchesfrom her first images in 1917 to her final paintings in 1977, butconcentrates on the most abstract of the works she created. Series 1 Number 4, painted by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1918, is one of the early paintings in which she uses abstract forms to respond to music ... (Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/Vancouver Art Gallery). (CBC News)
Georgia OKeeffe and Andy Warhol Oct 4, 2007
During the 1970s, the American master artist, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 1986) being in her 90s and nearly blind, painted a series of watercolors using the same primal forms that she had invented and been utilizing since 1916 ... IMAGE Andy Warhol Georgia O'Keeffe, ca.1980 AWF. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Modern masters help VAG set attendance record Sep 19, 2007
The VAG's next big show, Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction, opens on Oct. 6. Search the News Search. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Fidelity and Wisdom Sep 13, 2007
The restoration and addition was designed by Gluckman Mayner Architects, whose past projects include the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., the renovation and expansion of the Whitney Museum in New York, the Mori Arts Center in Tokyo, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Museo Picasso in Malaga, Spain. The firm has also designed studio spaces for Ellsworth Kelly, Chuck Close, Richard Serra and Francesco Clemente, as well as installations for PMA. A classic example of Art Deco... (South Brunswick Post, NJ)
N.M. museum drops claim for O'Keeffe pic Sep 12, 2007
NASHVILLE (AP) The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico on Tuesday dropped its lawsuit to claim a 101-piece art collection from Fisk University in Nashville. The Santa Fe, museum moved to withdraw its lawsuit one day after a judge denied a settlement agreement that would have sent a prominent O'Keeffe painting to the museum for $7. (USA Today -- Life)
A college's art treasure dilemma: to sell or to hold? Aug 28, 2007
Fisk University hopes to sell 'Radiator Building Night, New York,' a painting by Georgia O'Keeffe ... Atlanta - "Radiator Building," a Georgia O'Keeffe painting of a nighttime slab of New York skyline, is not merely a cornerstone of the art collection at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn ... The first attempt to sell "Radiator Building" was blocked in court by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., which argued that the deal broke with O'Keeffe's wishes to keep the collection... (Christian Science Monitor)
The flaws in Frank Lloyd Wright's design for living Aug 26, 2007
He became a national icon like Andrew Wyeth and Georgia O'Keeffe. None of this is to deny that Wright created some beautiful, paradigm-changing houses -- buildings that profoundly altered how people thought and dreamed about lifestyle and residential architecture. (Boston Globe)
Painter's multiple styles kept him from becoming a singular sensation Aug 19, 2007
For all that, and despite a full-scale, traveling retrospective organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in 2002, Dickinson is not remembered the way American modernists such as Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe are. Unlike those artists generally counted in the first ranks of American painters in the pre-Abstract Expressionist era, Dickinson did not forge a single, formally pared-down modern style. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Major Contemporary Art Museum Proposed for Presidio Aug 9, 2007
The Fishers have engaged the firm of Gluckman Mayner Architects, internationally recognized for its designs and work on Whitney Museum of American Art, Museo Picasso Malaga, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Dia Center for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Museum and most recently, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Philadelphia Museum of Art expansion to open this fall, as well as other museums and galleries. The Fishers are proposing a 100,000 sq. ft. museum plan with... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Dinosaurs coexisted with their ancestors Jul 22, 2007
The team reported finding 1,300 fossil specimens, including several complete bones, at Hayden Quarry at Ghost Ranch, an area made famous through the paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe. There were no complete skeletons, and researchers are continuing to work at the site. (CNN -- Tech)
Dinosaurs, early relatives coexisted Jul 21, 2007
" Although Padian and his colleagues will not say that his wannabes are direct ancestors of the dinosaurs, Anthony Fraser, a paleontologist at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, thinks that's possible. Fraser was not connected with the Berkeley fossil-hunting team, but in an interview, he praised their work and the fossils they found. "Those guys are surely on their way to being dinosaurs," he said of the mysterious dinosaur precursors. "They're in the same lineage, at least, but we may... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Chris Reilly's luminous art Jul 6, 2007
Martin Johnson Heade, with his late-19th-century images of hummingbirds and orchids, is a kindred spirit, as are early 20th-century modernists such as Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe. And like the slightly later Northwest painter, Morris Graves, Reilly brings a loosely Buddhist slant to his work. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
School can't sell art donated by O'Keeffe Jun 15, 2007
Tennessee NASHVILLE -- Fisk University cannot sell any of the 101 works of art -- some worth millions of dollars -- donated by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949, a judge ruled. Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ordered the historically black Nashville university not to sell any of the works in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection, noting they were donated for art education. (Boston Globe)
Judge blocks U.S. university from selling works donated by Georgia O'Keeffe Jun 15, 2007
Judge blocks U.S. university from selling works donated by Georgia O'Keeffe - International Herald Tribune. Judge blocks U.S. university from selling works donated by Georgia O'Keeffe ... NASHVILLE, Tennessee: Fisk University cannot sell any of the 101 works of art some worth millions of dollars donated by artist Georgia O'Keeffe in 1949, a judge ruled. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Between God & Man': 'Angels' exhibit appeals to the masses Jun 9, 2007
The exhibit is the museum's ninth in the Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series, which previously has made possible such popular shows as Paris Moderne and Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation. Exclusive to Jackson, Angels brings expectations of the largest crowd in the museum's history during its seven-month run - up to 100,000 visitors, director Betsy Bradley has said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
'The Mississippi Story': An evocative look Jun 7, 2007
Additional galleries display icons of the permanent collection, such as works by such celebrated artists as Robert Henri and Georgia O'Keeffe, and Pieces and Strings, a show of quilts from Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson. The blockbuster Between God and Man: Angels in Italian Art, ninth in the Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin Memorial Exhibition Series, also opening Saturday, requires a ticket for entry. (The Clarion-Ledger)
$104 to Albuquerque Jun 6, 2007
One of the Southwest's most charming towns, Santa Fe is also home to hundreds of art galleries and notable museums such as the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of International Folk Art. The city's biggest event will be held Aug. 18 and 19 on the Santa Fe Plaza. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Art and music events, festivals in Santa Fe May 31, 2007
The city is also home to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of International Folk Art, as well as hundreds of galleries. For music-lovers, Puccini's a Boheme opens the season for the Santa Fe Opera, June 29, with various productions running through Aug. 25. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Making it easy to brush up on Maine folk art this summer May 30, 2007
American modernist painters Georgia O'Keeffe and Marsden Hartley , a Maine native, drew inspiration from the local landscapes in the early 1900s. And the town has been a mecca for hundreds of other artists working in all types of media since the first art colony was established here more than a century ago. (Boston Globe)
Colby is given art worth $100m May 19, 2007
The 500 works in the collection include paintings, sculptures, and prints by John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Winslow Homer, Sol LeWitt, Jenny Holzer, and Alex Katz. The collection also includes 201 etchings and lithographs by James McNeill Whistler. (Boston Globe)
Rare gift, young ageTeenage painter is already selling out her first show, and she doesn't use tube mixes May 13, 2007
But for her portrait of famed American photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whose marriage to artist Georgia O'Keeffe produced some of his most famous pictures, Brown went with he Photographer. Her first still life is a two-picture set of the same subjects, a vase, tray and white rose she simply called till Life 1 Left and till Life 1 Right. (Missoulian, MT)
N.H. Art school gets $1.5 million collection May 7, 2007
The donation includes a collection of the journal "Camera Work," which was edited by photographer Arthur Stieglitz, the husband of painter Georgia O'Keeffe. . (Concord Monitor)
Edward Hopper looks into the American soul May 4, 2007
Unlike such modernists as Georgia O'Keeffe and Joseph Stella who celebrated the great skyscrapers, bridges, and other engineering wonders of New York, Hopper focused on the neglected 19th-century buildings and streets that made up most of the city's fabric. In his summertime works, he avoided the postcard-pretty maritime views and sought out then-unfashionable old Victorian houses and weathered cottages and farmhouses set on nondescript roads or in the midst of scrubby fields. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Table for 39click to play audio Apr 26, 2007
Chicago said she wanted to reinterpret "that all-male event from the point of view of those who had traditionally been expected to prepare the food, then silently disappear from the picture." The 39 settings commemorate significant women from myth, legend, and history, from "the primordial goddess" to Georgia O'Keeffe, with stops along the way at Sappho, Sacajawea, and Virginia Woolf. At each setting there's a large ceramic plate that rests on a cloth runner embroidered with the woman's name and... (Slate)
On my way rejoicing Apr 21, 2007
Was Spark - not otherwise known as the Georgia O'Keeffe of English prose - aware of this. I can't imagine that she was - the view of creative work as a "direct primary pleasure", an "erotic use of the higher nervous system" (in the words of the 1970s feminist Dorothy Dinnerstein), would have seemed impossibly alien and vulgar to her, like refusing to wear a bra. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Feminist art gets place of pride in Brooklyn Apr 21, 2007
From Artemisia Gentileschi, the 17th-century Italian painter, onward over the centuries, women artists have struggled for visibility in a male-dominated world. Even after the American feminist movement of the late 1960s and '70s empowered an unprecedented number of women artists, who elevated personal issues to a political and universal level, they have remained underrepresented in museums around the world. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Men of Steel Apr 20, 2007
Mr. Stewart, who began casting in 1975, has cast sculpture for Selma Burke, Kiki Smith, J. Seward Johnson Jr., Peter Voulkos and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. He has cast several pieces for Mr. Docktor in the past five years. (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
Theme gets muddled in 'Modern West' Apr 16, 2007
If there is one artist who provides a welcome exclamation point to the notion that the West mattered in the early years of an American modernist art, it's Georgia O'Keeffe. She created her beautifully conceived Black Cross With Stars and Blue (1929) during her first year there. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Impermanent Collection Apr 13, 2007
When he died in 1946, Alfred Stieglitz, the great photographer and tireless promoter of modern art, left his estate to his wife, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe ... But when the school moved to bring Radiator Building to market, it triggered what became a lawsuit by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., which moved to block the sale on the grounds that it violated the terms of the painter's bequest. (Time.com)
Seattle Art Museum gets massive donations Apr 2, 2007
The downtown museum, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year with the May unveiling of its massive remodeling effort, said the collectors' gifts include works by Edward Hopper, Constantin Brancusi, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Georgia O'Keeffe. "This is a landmark commitment for SAM and our community," said Mimi Gates, SAM director, in a statement. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
Brush averse Mar 31, 2007
Before moving to Charleston in 2004, the last stop was Santa Fe, N.M., where she was a docent at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Nelson has long been a fan of O'Keeffe: he's a great woman crazy, probably, but aren't we all. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
What Women Have Done to Art Mar 24, 2007
Along each of its sides are 13 place settings--think Christ and his 12 disciples--each assigned to a significant woman from legend or history, from "the primordial goddess" to Sojourner Truth and Georgia O'Keeffe. The table rests on a triangular white ceramic-tile floor that bears the names of another 999 women painted in gold. (Time.com)
