At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism
May 7, 2022–Feb 26, 2023
Georgia O’Keeffe
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Born 1887 in Sun Prairie, WI
Died 1986 in Santa Fe, NM
In her abstract paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe invented an original language of form and color that she likened to music in its ability to portray emotions beyond conscious grasp. Rather than depicting the outward, tangible forms of nature, she worked to evoke the experience of being in nature, enveloped by infinitude and a wonder that can not be expressed in words. Using a vocabulary of undulating, biomorphic forms and a technique of gently feathering her strokes of vibrant color into one another, she created animate works that suggest the flowing rhythms of the natural world.
Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918
Georgia O'Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918. Oil on canvas, overall: 35 × 29 15/16 in. (88.9 × 76 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Emily Fisher Landau in honor of Tom Armstrong 91.90. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Artists
- Richmond Barthé
- Ben Benn
- Albert Bloch
- Oscar Bluemner
- Patrick Henry Bruce
- Charles Burchfield
- Arthur B. Carles
- John Covert
- E.E. Cummings
- Imogen Cunningham
- James Daugherty
- Arthur B. Davies
- Stuart Davis
- Manierre Dawson
- Charles Demuth
- Isami Doi
- Aaron Douglas
- Arthur Dove
- Charles Duncan
- Yun Gee
- Marsden Hartley
- Rebecca Salsbury James
- Loïs Mailou Jones
- Taizo Kato
- Gaston Lachaise
- Blanche Lazzell
- Stanton Macdonald-Wright
- Man Ray
- John Marin
- Elie Nadelman
- Louise Nevelson
- Carl Newman
- Isamu Noguchi
- Chiura Obata
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Walter Pach
- Agnes Pelton
- Nancy Elizabeth Prophet
- Henry Lyman Sayen
- Charles G. Shaw
- Harry Shigeta
- Henrietta Shore
- Pamela Colman Smith
- Joseph Stella
- Florine Stettheimer
- John Storrs
- Henry Fitch Taylor
- Helen Torr
- Jay Van Everen
- Adele Watson
- Max Weber
- Edith Clifford Williams
- Marguerite Zorach
- William Zorach