Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Next legal step uncertain for Georgia O’Keeffe art collection at Fisk University

December 2, 2011 by  
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NASHVILLE, TN (AP).- Fisk University’s decade-long quest to generate cash from a 101-piece art collection donated by the late painter Georgia O’Keeffe is one step closer to fruition. But it is unclear how quickly the historically black university in Nashville will be able to complete a $30 million deal to sell a 50 percent stake in the collection to the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Ark. Under the agreement, the artworks including O’Keefe’s own 1927 oil painting “Radiator Building — Night, New York [...]

J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction on View at Gerald Peters Gallery

January 16, 2011 by  
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NEW YORK, NY.- Gerald Peters Gallery presents J Henry Fair: Abstraction of Destruction, an exhibition of roughly thirty c print photographs ranging in size from 50 x 75 to 30 x 45 inches. Each photo, while abstract to the eye contains mysterious hints to the subject matter therein. These forms capture the tradition of painted abstraction reminiscent of the works of Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Martin, Frankenthaler, Motherwell and Dubuffet. Yet these haunting images are not abstraction at all but [...]

Major Private Collection to Highlight Christie’s Sale of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

November 25, 2010 by  
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NEW YORK, NY.- A vibrant flower study by Georgia O’Keeffe consigned direct from the Santa Fe museum dedicated to the celebrated artist’s work is just one of the highlights of Christie’s upcoming sale of American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture on December 1 in New York. Prominent private collections with ties to some of America’s most trusted brands form the backbone of the 149-lot sale, which includes works from the Collection of Charlotte and R. Philip Hanes, Jr., the CEO Emeritus of [...]

The Phillips Collection Celebrates 90 Years of Creative Innovation with New Exhibitions

September 30, 2010 by  
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WASHINGTON, DC.- In 2011, The Phillips Collection celebrates its 90th anniversary and launches the countdown to its centennial. A host of exhibitions, programs, and events throughout the year debut stunning new acquisitions in contemporary art, engage artists in conversation with the collection, and tell the story of artistic innovation that has been the heart of the museum since Duncan Phillips opened its doors in 1921. The Phillips kicks off the anniversary with a free weekend on January 15–16 and brings [...]

New Exhibition Peels Back Layers of Georgia O’Keeffe

September 21, 2010 by  
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SANTA FE, NM (AP).- Beneath layers of paint, wrapped in bundles of brushes, hidden in sketch books and packed away among boxes of paints and pencils are clues that shed light on how Georgia O’Keeffe went about creating her colorful landscapes and iconic flower paintings. Like forensic investigators, curators at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe have spent months combing through their collection and now they’re ready to share the many bits of evidence they have collected as part [...]

Judge Rejects Fisk Deal to Sell Georgia O’Keeffe Share

August 21, 2010 by  
Filed under Art Crime & Legal

NASHVILLE (AP).- A Nashville judge has rejected Fisk University’s proposal to sell a joint share in a 101-piece collection donated by late artist Georgia O’Keeffe to an Arkansas museum. Fisk argued that its precarious financial state prevents the historically black university from maintaining and displaying the collection. Judge Ellen Hobbs Lyle agreed Friday that the cash-strapped school is unable to exhibit the collection. But Lyle said the Fisk proposal to sell a 50 percent stake in the collection to the [...]

Amon Carter Museum Adds ‘of American Art’ to Its Name

August 3, 2010 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- Museum Director Ron Tyler announces that the Amon Carter Museum has modified its name: the longtime institution is now known as the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. “The museum was established in 1961 to house Amon G. Carter’s collection of paintings and sculpture by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, the two greatest artists of the American West,” Tyler says. “But from the beginning, the Amon G. Carter Foundation and the Carter family intended the museum [...]

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Transforms with Abstract Works

June 13, 2010 by  
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SANTA FE, NM. (AP)- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has been transformed. Missing are the iconic paintings of flowers, bones and colorful landscapes that have made the American modernist famous the world over. In their place are streaks of yellow and red, brilliant pastel swirls, blocks of contrasting color and stark charcoal lines slicing across nearly bare sheets of paper. Cast aside any doubts, though. The museum hasn’t been taken over by another artist. These are in fact O’Keeffe’s. The museum [...]

Georgia O’Keeffe Draws Art Lovers to Northern New Mexico

GHOST RANCH, NM.- Sandstone cliffs rise from the desert floor in layers of orange, pink and yellow, limited only by the expansive blue sky that pushes down on the sprawling northern New Mexico ranch from above. Save for a few birds chirping and a breeze whistling through cedar trees, it’s quiet here. This is Georgia O’Keeffe Country — remote, solitary and breathtaking. It was O’Keeffe, the American modernist painter, who found a way to transport the light, colors and shapes [...]

Sotheby’s Spring Sale of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture to be Held May 19

May 7, 2010 by  
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NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s auction of American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture on 19 May 2010 will offer collectors a rich array of works by American artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. The auction contains a strong selection of modern pictures, with many paintings that are both rare and fresh to the market. Works from the sale will be exhibited at Sotheby’s New York galleries beginning 15 May. Featured among the selection of modern works is Georgia O’Keeffe’s Inside Clam [...]

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Makes Over 3,000 Items Available for View Online

May 2, 2010 by  
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SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has introduced on its website a searchable online database with images of over 3,000 items from the museum’s collection, as well as materials from the archives of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center. Through the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collections Online, the public can now view items including, among others, images of art and photographs in the Museum Collection and correspondence from Research Center Collections. Online availability of these materials was created to increase [...]

Never Before Seen Georgia O’Keeffe Exhibition Opens in Fort Worth

February 16, 2010 by  
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FORT WORTH, TX.- The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame presents the never before seen Georgia O’Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image exhibition, which will be displayed in Fort Worth, Texas, from February 12th through September 6th. The exhibition, a collaboration between the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, explores the relationship that artist and Cowgirl Hall of Fame Honoree O’Keeffe had with nature through her camping experiences and [...]

Phillips Collection Examines Georgia O’Keeffe from a Fresh Perspective

February 6, 2010 by  
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The artistic achievement of Georgia O’Keeffe is examined from a fresh perspective in Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, a landmark exhibition debuting this winter at The Phillips Collection. While O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been recognized as one of the central figures in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she created throughout her long career has remained less well-known than her representational art. By surveying her abstractions, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction repositions O’Keeffe as one of America’s first and most daring abstract [...]

Phillips Collection to Examine Georgia O’Keeffe from a Fresh Perspective

January 4, 2010 by  
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WASHINGTON, DC.- The artistic achievement of Georgia O’Keeffe is examined from a fresh perspective in Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, a landmark exhibition debuting this winter at The Phillips Collection. While O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been recognized as one of the central figures in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she created throughout her long career has remained less well-known than her representational art. By surveying her abstractions, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction repositions O’Keeffe as one of America’s first and most daring abstract [...]