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Exhibition
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image
Touring Exhibition 2010 - 2013
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe/New Mexico
May 11, 2012 - May 05, 2013
Georgia O’Keeffe had a lifelong passion for nature and felt a particular kinship and spiritual connection with the Southwestern landscape. From her first prolonged stay in New Mexico in 1929, she drew inspiration from this unique environment, and it continued to offer her boundless resources and inspiration for her art to the end of her life. Experiencing nature directly was an essential part of O’Keeffe’s experience in the Southwest, and she walked often amidst the colorful cliffs and hills of the extensive painted desert surrounding her Ghost Ranch house, which she purchased in 1940, picking up rocks and dried animal bones. Camping was also an important means of spending time in and painting the unusual landscape configurations that interested O’Keeffe and this exhibition explores their importance to her life and art. O’Keeffe explored what she called “the faraway” in paintings of the landscape surrounding her Ghost Ranch house, and these landscape formations were recurrent and important themes in her work.
Georgia O’Keeffe had a lifelong passion for nature and felt a particular kinship and spiritual connection with the Southwestern landscape. From her first prolonged stay in New Mexico in 1929, she drew inspiration from this unique environment, and it continued to offer her boundless resources and inspiration for her art to the end of her life. Experiencing nature directly was an essential part of O’Keeffe’s experience in the Southwest, and she walked often amidst the colorful cliffs and hills of the extensive painted desert surrounding her Ghost Ranch house, which she purchased in 1940, picking up rocks and dried animal bones. Camping was also an important means of spending time in and painting the unusual landscape configurations that interested O’Keeffe and this exhibition explores their importance to her life and art. O’Keeffe explored what she called “the faraway” in paintings of the landscape surrounding her Ghost Ranch house, and these landscape formations were recurrent and important themes in her work.
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Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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