Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
From Burden's Landing
217 Johnson St
Santa Fe, NM 87501
http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/
A tremendous exhibit I got to see on my Santa Fe (May 2011) trip. Highlights:
- I loved how the exhibit demonstrated the influence photography had on art and vice-versa. In particular, the close-up photo seemed to have a profound impact on art. Examples:
- Paul Strand, Abstraction, Bowls (1916)
- Paul Strand, Still-Life with Pears and Bowls (1916)
- Edward Weston, Artichoke Halved (1930)
- Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe -- Hands (1919). Wow, she had graceful, beautiful hands
- Loved Georgia O'Keeffe's description of Roger Dow's philosophy of art: "His idea was to fill a space in a beautiful way."
- I found two of Henry Koerner's paintings particularly haunting:
- My Parents II (1946) -- yellow, dead leaves, forest, father walking in white on left, mother seated in black, separated by trees and leaves. Locket with picture of kids in left foreground
- The Skin of our Teeth (1946) -- brick building facade, nature and bridge / cities in distance, Ferris wheel, harvesting, picking through bricks, dust
- Curious about Sherrie Lewis's work. Explores issues of originality, authorship