Exhibition
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: Beyond Our Shores
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe/New Mexico
May 22, 2009 - September 20, 2009
- Curator
- Barbara Buhler Lynes
Gallery 8-9
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: Beyond Our Shores: This exhibition presents a selection of rarely seen O'Keeffe works inspired by her travels outside of the United States: Bermuda (1933 and 1934), Hawaii (1939 and before it became part of the United States), Peru (1957), and Asia (1959 and 1960). these works have never been exhibited together among them are two oil paintings O'Keeffe completed while in Hawaii as guest of the dole Pineapple Company that had commissioned her to make paintings that would be reproduced in its advertising campaigns. White Bird of Paradise, 1939, is a recent gift to the museum from Jean H.. McDonald, and Pink Ornamental Banana is on loan to us from James M. Rosenfield. An O'Keeffe drawing for the Bird of Paradise flower is also on display.
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: Beyond Our Shores: This exhibition presents a selection of rarely seen O'Keeffe works inspired by her travels outside of the United States: Bermuda (1933 and 1934), Hawaii (1939 and before it became part of the United States), Peru (1957), and Asia (1959 and 1960). these works have never been exhibited together among them are two oil paintings O'Keeffe completed while in Hawaii as guest of the dole Pineapple Company that had commissioned her to make paintings that would be reproduced in its advertising campaigns. White Bird of Paradise, 1939, is a recent gift to the museum from Jean H.. McDonald, and Pink Ornamental Banana is on loan to us from James M. Rosenfield. An O'Keeffe drawing for the Bird of Paradise flower is also on display.
