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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE'S ABSTRACTION AT THE WHITNEY, NEW YORK
James Kalm partakes in the press preview for this icon of American Modernism. Over 20 years in the making, this exhibition surveys the lesser known but perhaps more profound side of O'Keeffe's work, her abstraction. Beginning with her discovery and eventual relationship with Alfred Stieglitz in 1916, O'Keeffe was thrust in to the stratosphere of the New York art scene. She was at the forefront of pursuing a type of organic abstraction that Stieglitz championed as America's contribution to Modernism. Examples of O'Keeffe's paintings covering nearly 50 years of development are on view. This film includes brief statements by Director Adam D. Weinberg, and the curatorial team lead by Barbara Haskell, Barbara Buhler Lynes and Sasha Nicholas.

 
 
USER COMMENTS
It is a beautiful video of the exhibition, because I could see some of the paintings and the comentaries about them. I didn´t know this paintings of Georgia O´Keeffe.I like very much her work, her time in Texas and in Hawaii Josefina
Josefina Aguirre Liaño    05-10-2009
NICE HISTORICAL REF JC!
Foggy    04-10-2009
I didn't think the work was that imporant..I guess that relates to how we make history up...I.E retrospectively.
Francis Williams    04-10-2009
      By James Kalm
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