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Georgia O'Keeffe

Cup of Silver Ginger by Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Cup of Silver Ginger, 1939
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American 1887-1986)
Collection of Baltimore Museum of Art, Gift of Cary Ross.
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Image Courtesy: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

Rochester, New York currently hosts its first ever exhibit of one of the most beloved American artists: Georgia O'Keeffe at the Memorial Art Gallery

Color and Conservation
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester
October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006

“Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the iconic figures in the history of American art, and this particular exhibition reflects the depth and breadth of her career,” says Memorial Art Gallery director Grant Holcomb. “The variety of subject matter, the artist’s probing of the intricacies of color and her pioneering interest in art conservation will combine to make the exhibition unique, significant and enjoyable to our visitors.”

Color and Conservation includes 25 rarely-seen oil paintings and two pastels with  landscapes, flower paintings, still life and abstractions. These works reflect all periods of O’Keeffe’s prodigious career.

In the Patio by Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: In the Patio VIII, 1950
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American 1887-1986)
Collection of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM.
Gift of The Burnett Foundation.
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Image Courtesy: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester


Georgia O’Keeffe in front of one of her paintings (“After a Walk Back of Mabel’s”) photograghed by Alfred Stieglitz
Title: Georgia O’Keeffe in front of one of her paintings (“After a Walk Back of Mabel’s”), 1930
Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print.
Courtesy George Eastman House.
Image Courtesy: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

On view will be photographs of O’Keeffe, many loaned from George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.


The Karsh portrait of the American artist will be one of the highlights of the photography portion of the exhibition.

Georgia O'Keeffe photographed by Yousuf Karsh
Title: Georgia O'Keeffe
Arist: Yousuf Karsh (Canadian ,
Mississippi Museum of Art,
Gift of Mississippi Chemical Corporation.
© 1956 Yousuf Karsh.
Image Courtesy: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

Black Mesa by Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Black Mesa Landscape/Out Back of Marie’s II, 1930
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American 1887-1986)
Collection of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM.
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Image Courtesy: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

Corn by Georgia O'Keeffe
Title: Corn No. 2, 1924.
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American 1887-1986)
Collection of Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM.
Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum.
Image Courtesy: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

She was among the pioneers of modernism in America. Georgia O'Keeffe was part of the Steglitz circle and went on to marry him in 1924. She created near abstract floral renditions. Often they were sexually suggestive in nature. From the 1930s she spent her winters in New Mexico, relocating there after her husband's death. In 1946 she began to explore the desert landscape as a new subject matter and in the 1950s, after beginning to travel widely, the earth sky and clouds viewed from a plane became a theme.

She reduced her artwork production in 1971 given she was partially blind, but explored ceramics as a new outlet for her creativity. She, along with Charles Sheeler and Charles Demuth were the proponents of American modernism called precisionism or Cubist Realism. They straddled the borderline between representation and abstraction, often using clear-edged rectangles to illustrate skyscrapers and factories.

Georgia O'Keeffe with Watercolor Paint Box, 1918 by Alfred Stieglitz
Title: Georgia O’Keeffe with Watercolor Paint Box, 1918
Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print.
Courtesy George Eastman House.
Image Courtesy: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester

Georgia O'Keeffe, an American icon, in Rochester.

Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester:
October 1, 2006 - December 31, 2006

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