Exhibition
A Celebration of New Works: Recent Gifts, Promised Gifts, and Extended Loans
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe/New Mexico
February 10, 2006 - June 04, 2006
- Curator
- Barbara Buhler Lynes
Gallery 2-5
It isn't often that a Museum has the pleasure of announcing that its holdings have suddenly and dramatically increased. Yet, ours have done just that because of the extraordinary generosity of various individuals and organizations. What better way to thank them for their thoughtfulness and support than to organize an exhibition that highlights some of the more than 1,000 works that are new to our collection.
Ghost Ranch Landscape, an O'Keeffe painting of c. 1936, has come to us through a bequest from the late Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr., a life-long resident of Ardmore, Oklahoma. The painting depicts one of O'Keeffe's favorite landscape configurations, the flint-topped mountains, Pedernal, which looms in the distance directly beyond the patio of her Ghost Ranch house. O'Keeffe made more than 20 paintings of this subject, several of which are already part of our collection, such as the pastel, Pedernal, 1945, and the oil painting, Spring, 1948.
The exhibition includes these and other New Mexico landscapes from our collection from the 1940s along with other works from private collections that have been placed on extended loan to the Museum.
Featured also is a selection of the works on paper (charcoal, pastel and watercolor) that will become part of our permanent collection as a result of the generous and extraordinary transfer of assets of approximately 1,000 works to the Museum from the Georgia O'keeffe Foundation.
Featured also are eight paintings that have come to us as gifts through the wonderful and thoughtful generosity of two donors who wish to remain anonymous. These works represent the only public or private collection of images of New Mexico by the following eight artists, who worked here at various points in a 20-year period beginning in 1912, when New Mexico, which had been a territory, attained statehood: George Wesley Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, John Marin, and John Sloan. Their mediums are pastel, oil, and watercolor.
Finally the exhibition presents two usually important watercolors from 1917 that have come into the collection as Promised Gifts from The Burnett Foundation.
It isn't often that a Museum has the pleasure of announcing that its holdings have suddenly and dramatically increased. Yet, ours have done just that because of the extraordinary generosity of various individuals and organizations. What better way to thank them for their thoughtfulness and support than to organize an exhibition that highlights some of the more than 1,000 works that are new to our collection.
Ghost Ranch Landscape, an O'Keeffe painting of c. 1936, has come to us through a bequest from the late Jerome M. Westheimer, Sr., a life-long resident of Ardmore, Oklahoma. The painting depicts one of O'Keeffe's favorite landscape configurations, the flint-topped mountains, Pedernal, which looms in the distance directly beyond the patio of her Ghost Ranch house. O'Keeffe made more than 20 paintings of this subject, several of which are already part of our collection, such as the pastel, Pedernal, 1945, and the oil painting, Spring, 1948.
The exhibition includes these and other New Mexico landscapes from our collection from the 1940s along with other works from private collections that have been placed on extended loan to the Museum.
Featured also is a selection of the works on paper (charcoal, pastel and watercolor) that will become part of our permanent collection as a result of the generous and extraordinary transfer of assets of approximately 1,000 works to the Museum from the Georgia O'keeffe Foundation.
Featured also are eight paintings that have come to us as gifts through the wonderful and thoughtful generosity of two donors who wish to remain anonymous. These works represent the only public or private collection of images of New Mexico by the following eight artists, who worked here at various points in a 20-year period beginning in 1912, when New Mexico, which had been a territory, attained statehood: George Wesley Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Edward Hopper, John Marin, and John Sloan. Their mediums are pastel, oil, and watercolor.
Finally the exhibition presents two usually important watercolors from 1917 that have come into the collection as Promised Gifts from The Burnett Foundation.
