Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
In Santa Fe this past spring I spent a good day wandering through the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and actually spending time in front of each of her paintings, trying to understand what made it so beautiful, so interesting, so penetratingly different, and so moving to the viewer. It seems Georgia had put such intense observation, but also so much love and emotion, into each one of her subjects, that she was able to find, and paint, “the soul” of the object, be it a part of a flower or the red mountains of her beloved New Mexico desert. A great new exhibition at the Denver Art Museum provides wonderful new insights into our understanding of O’Keefe’s art. The exhibition was originally organized by the Houston Museum of Fine Arts with the collaboration of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. In Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer , this exhibition presents and offers for analysis ways in which O’Keeffe saw the shaping of objects and landscapes under di...