Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i
May 19-October 28, 2018
New York Botanical Garden
A major exhibition on American artist Georgia O'Keeffe's nine-week visit to Hawaii in 1939 opens May 19 at the New York Botanical Garden. The exhibition includes a display of flora unique to Hawaii in the Enid Haupt Conservatory, including the gardens and landscapes that inspired O'Keeffe; artworks she produced while in Hawaii; a scholarly symposium; films, and a number of special classes and talks.
O'Keeffe traveled to Hawaii on commission to produce images for the Hawaii Pineapple Company -- images that would be used in their advertisements. At the time of her visit, she was among the best known artists in the United States, famous for her works that showed the landscape and desert flora of New Mexico. In Hawaii, O'Keeffe traveled to Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii and painted closeups of plants and flowers, as well as mountain landscapes and waterfalls. The exhibition includes 20 of these paintings, first shown in 1940 at Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place gallery in New York.
You might want to catch the panel discussion on May 18th from 10:30-12:30 -- O'Keeffe and Hawaii: A Sense of Place.
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