Georgia O’Keeffe Archives – The Urban Watch Magazine https://theurbanwatch.com/tag/georgia-okeeffe/ Watching fashion, culture & tech Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:51:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://i0.wp.com/theurbanwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cropped-the-urban-watch-magazine-where-new-york-and-london-collide-lifestyle-online-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Georgia O’Keeffe Archives – The Urban Watch Magazine https://theurbanwatch.com/tag/georgia-okeeffe/ 32 32 43330653 Back on British Soil: Georgia O’Keeffe at The Tate Modern https://theurbanwatch.com/city-culture/georgia-okeeffe-tate-modern/ https://theurbanwatch.com/city-culture/georgia-okeeffe-tate-modern/#respond Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:29:25 +0000 http://theurbanwatch.com/?p=1910 It seems that London is in the throes of a new cultural shift, we have entered the era of retrospect. It would take less than five minutes to find someone reminiscing and saying ‘it’s not like the old days,’ and, for some part, that is entirely true. It is, however, the newfangled techy days that…

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]]> It seems that London is in the throes of a new cultural shift, we have entered the era of retrospect. It would take less than five minutes to find someone reminiscing and saying ‘it’s not like the old days,’ and, for some part, that is entirely true. It is, however, the newfangled techy days that are delivering the most ecclectic of old days to us.

The National Portrait Gallery is staging the new Lucian Freud collection and The Royal Academy will be hosting David Hockney’s newest works, two events worthy of any critic’s choice column, but, there’s more.

Just in case anyone got the idea that The Tate Modern was going to be sitting on its laurels and basking in the attention and glory of The Switch House, grand expansion and Ai Wei Wei’s turbine hall masterpiece, it has come back with a blinder.

In July, Tate Modern has opened a major retrospective of American modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe.

6 July – 30 October 2016
Tate Modern, The Eyal Ofer Galleries
Open daily 10.00 – 18.00 and until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday
For public information call +44 (0)20 7887 8888, visit tate.org.uk, follow @tate #Tate2016
Alfred Stieglitz 1864-1946 Georgia O’Keeffe 1918Photograph, palladium print on paper 243 x 192 mm The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles © The J. Paul Getty Trust
Alfred Stieglitz 1864-1946 Georgia O’Keeffe 1918Photograph, palladium print on paper 243 x 192 mm The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles © The J. Paul Getty Trust

O’Keeffe’s work has not been a guest on British soil for 20 years and, given that the artist is marking the centenery of her 1916 New York debut, it’s an astonishing achievement and show of respect to the Tate Modern and its highly acclaimed curator, Tanya Barson.

Hailed as one of the “founding fathers” of American modernism, O’Keeffe fought and forged a path that led through the six decades of her career and made her an eminent and important pioneer for feminist artists.

Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 New York Street with Moon 1925 Oil paint on canvas 1220 x 770 mm Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/ DACS, London.
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 New York Street with Moon 1925 Oil paint on canvas 1220 x 770 mm Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection on loan at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ DACS, London.

With no works by O’Keeffe in UK public collections, the exhibition will be a once-in-a-generation opportunity for audiences outside of America to view her oeuvre in such depth. Oh, and, while you’re there, don’t miss the Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, the most expensive painting by a female artist ever sold at auction ($44.4 million).

Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 1932 Oil paint on canvas 48 x 40 inches Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, USA Photography by Edward C. Robison III © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 1932 Oil paint on canvas 48 x 40 inches Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, USA Photography by Edward C. Robison III © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 From the Faraway, Nearby 1937 Oil paint on canvas 914 x 1019 mm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959 © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/ DACS, London. Photo: Malcom Varon © 2015. Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Art Resource/ Scala, Florence
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 From the Faraway, Nearby 1937 Oil paint on canvas 914 x 1019 mm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1959 © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ DACS, London. Photo: Malcom Varon © 2015. Image copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Art Resource/ Scala, Florence

These works investigate the relationship of form to landscape, music, colour and composition, and reveal O’Keeffe’s developing understanding of synaesthesia.

Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 White Iris 1930 Oil paint on canvas 1016 x 762 mm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Mr and Mrs Bruce C. Gottwald © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 White Iris 1930 Oil paint on canvas 1016 x 762 mm Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Mr and Mrs Bruce C. Gottwald © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Lake George Barns 1926 Oil paint on canvas 538 x 814 mm Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Gift of the T.B. Walker Foundation, 1954 © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Lake George Barns 1926 Oil paint on canvas 538 x 814 mm Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Gift of the T.B. Walker Foundation, 1954 © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS, London

A word from Hannah Johnston, Assistant Curator

Curating the O’Keeffe exhibition has been a rewarding experience, but one that’s long overdue. This will be only the second major exhibition of O’Keeffe’s work in the UK with the last show taking place over 20 years ago, so this exhibition really offers a unique opportunity for a new generation of art lovers to see her work. The co-operation from institutions and collections all over the world has been outstanding and enabled us to bring together over 100 major paintings, many of which have never been shown in this country before such as Grey Lines with Black, Blue and Yellow 1923. A key aim for us with this show was to position O’Keeffe as a complex and multi-faceted artist, and open up audiences to discover the full range of her output – she was more than a simple painter of flowers. The exhibition dispels the clichés that persist about O’Keeffe and her painting. The timing is incredibly significant as 2016 marks a century since O’Keeffe’s debut at 291 Gallery in New York.

Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Pedernal 1945 Pastel on paper 546 x 1099 mm Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Gift of The Burnett Foundation © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Pedernal 1945 Pastel on paper 546 x 1099 mm Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Gift of The Burnett Foundation © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Music – Pink and Blue No. 1 1918 Oil paint on canvas 889 x 737 mm Collection of Barney A. Ebsworth. Partial and Promised gift to Seattle Art Museum © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Music – Pink and Blue No. 1 1918 Oil paint on canvas 889 x 737 mm Collection of Barney A. Ebsworth. Partial and Promised gift to Seattle Art Museum © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Black Cross with Stars and Blue 1929 Oil paint on canvas 1016 x 762 mm Private collection © 2016 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/ DACS, London
Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 Black Cross with Stars and Blue 1929 Oil paint on canvas 1016 x 762 mm Private collection © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ DACS, London

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