MARCH
3–JULY 23, 2017
Morris A.
and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 4th Floor
Georgia
O’Keeffe: Living Modern takes a new look at how the renowned modernist artist
proclaimed her progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public
persona—including her clothing and the way she posed for the camera. The
exhibition expands our understanding of O'Keeffe by focusing on her wardrobe,
shown for the first time alongside key paintings and photographs. It confirms
and explores her determination to be in charge of how the world understood her
identity and artistic values.
In addition
to selected paintings and items of clothing, the exhibition presents
photographs of O’Keeffe and her homes by Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Annie
Leibovitz, Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh, Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Bruce
Weber, Todd Webb, and others. It also includes works that entered the Brooklyn
collection following O’Keeffe’s first-ever museum exhibition—held at the
Brooklyn Museum in 1927.
The
exhibition is organized in sections that run from her early years, when
O’Keeffe crafted a signature style of dress that dispensed with ornamentation;
to her years in New York, in the 1920s and 1930s, when a black-and-white
palette dominated much of her art and dress; and to her later years in New
Mexico, where her art and clothing changed in response to the surrounding colors
of the Southwestern landscape. The final section explores the enormous role
photography played in the artist’s reinvention of herself in the Southwest,
when a younger generation of photographers visited her, solidifying her status
as a pioneer of modernism and as a contemporary style icon.
Georgia
O’Keeffe: Living Modern is organized by guest curator Wanda M. Corn, Robert and
Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University, and
coordinated by Lisa Small, Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, Brooklyn
Museum.
Lead
sponsorship for this exhibition is provided by the Calvin Klein Family
Foundation. Generous support is also provided by Anne Klein, Bank of America,
the Helene Zucker Seeman Memorial Exhibition Fund, Christie's, Almine Rech
Gallery, and the Alturas Foundation. The accompanying book is supported by the
Wyeth Foundation for American Art and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art
Foundation and is published by the Brooklyn Museum in association with
DelMonico Books • Prestel.
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