About the upcoming show at the Whitney: Georgia O'KEEFFE


Philadelphia Museum of Art

‘Red & Orange Streak,’ 1919 by Georgia O'Keeffe, Oil on canvas, 27 x 23 in.

Thank you Sharon, for letting us know about this article published in the Wall Street Journal
A Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective
Painting a New Picture of Georgia O'Keeffe :An exhibit of little-known abstracts attempts to recast the artist's legacy By CANDACE JACKSON SEPTEMBER 3, 2009, 8:56 P.M. ET
Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of weathered ram skulls, calico roses and adobe buildings are some of the world's most recognizable works of art, but critics have often dismissed her work as commercial, crowd-pleasing fare.
This fall, a new exhibit will attempt to redefine that legacy. The expansive retrospective, which opens at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art on Sept. 17, will focus on O'Keeffe's lesser-known abstract works. The show will eventually travel to the Phillips Collection in Washington and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, N.M. It marks the first major exhibition of her work in New York in more than 20 years.
Read more............ LIFE & STYLE SEPTEMBER 3, 2009, 8:56 P.M. ET Painting a New Picture of Georgia O'Keeffe
An exhibit of little-known abstracts attempts to recast the artist's legacy....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204731804574388823084770420.html#

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