Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera
The Art of Identity
September 26, 2008 - February 01, 2009
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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.
