Beginning April 29, 2016, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum brings together the watercolors created by the artist during the years she lived in Canyon, Texas (1916-1918). This is a period of radical innovation and the moment when O’Keeffe’s commitment to abstraction is firmly established. The watercolors and drawings she created during that period, which were shown by Alfred Stieglitz at his New York gallery “291,” provide ample evidence of the significance of this moment in O’Keeffe’s artistic formation. Her life in Texas and the work she created is often mentioned as a prelude to her career in New York City. This exhibition will analyze the unique situation that fostered her abstractions at the intersection of her disciplined art practice and her allegiance to the techniques of her mentor Arthur Wesley Dow. While she was at West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A & M University) she taught his curriculum, which became her life-long practice.
Twenty-eight of the 51 watercolors O’Keeffe created while living in Canyon, Texas will be on view. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum is fortunate to hold the majority of the works produced in this era through gifts from The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation and The Burnett Foundation, including landscapes, abstractions, and nudes (studies of her own body).
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