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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: Access O'Keeffe
Exhibition
Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George
Touring Exhibition 2013 - 2014
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco/California
February 15, 2014 - May 11, 2014
The first exhibition to closely examine the extraordinary body of work created by O'Keeffe at and of Lake George, a thirty-mile-long lake located in the Adirondacks of northern New York. Beginning in 1918 until the mid-1930s, O’Keeffe spent part of each year at Alfred Stieglitz's family estate, a thirty-six-acre property situated just north of Lake George village in the southern basin of the lake along the western shore. Here she reveled in the discovery of new sources of inspiration for her work, found respite in the lake’s bucolic setting, and enjoyed long walks through the pastures and wooded trails that surrounded the property. This groundbreaking exhibition presents the full range of work by the artist, from magnified botanical compositions of flowers and vegetables to a group of remarkable still life paintings of apples and pears. O'Keeffe painted a series of arboreal portraits focusing on the variety of trees - birches, cedars, chestnuts, maples, and poplars that grew in abundance at Lake George. Telescopic views of a single leaf or pairs of overlapping leaves were another recurring motif during her Lake George years. Architectural subjects, including paintings of the weathered barns and buildings on the property that blend the descriptive with the abstract emerged as a theme, as did a number of panoramic Lake George landscape paintings and bold, color-filled abstraction that often visually related to the subjects the artist was working on at the time.
The first exhibition to closely examine the extraordinary body of work created by O'Keeffe at and of Lake George, a thirty-mile-long lake located in the Adirondacks of northern New York. Beginning in 1918 until the mid-1930s, O’Keeffe spent part of each year at Alfred Stieglitz's family estate, a thirty-six-acre property situated just north of Lake George village in the southern basin of the lake along the western shore. Here she reveled in the discovery of new sources of inspiration for her work, found respite in the lake’s bucolic setting, and enjoyed long walks through the pastures and wooded trails that surrounded the property. This groundbreaking exhibition presents the full range of work by the artist, from magnified botanical compositions of flowers and vegetables to a group of remarkable still life paintings of apples and pears. O'Keeffe painted a series of arboreal portraits focusing on the variety of trees - birches, cedars, chestnuts, maples, and poplars that grew in abundance at Lake George. Telescopic views of a single leaf or pairs of overlapping leaves were another recurring motif during her Lake George years. Architectural subjects, including paintings of the weathered barns and buildings on the property that blend the descriptive with the abstract emerged as a theme, as did a number of panoramic Lake George landscape paintings and bold, color-filled abstraction that often visually related to the subjects the artist was working on at the time.
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Courtesy of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Photo: Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
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