Art lovers know full well what a great painter Georgia O’Keeffe was. But few of them know his photographic work. The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston is dedicating an exhibition to this often overlooked aspect of his artistic practice.
From a young age, Georgia O’Keeffe has always seen herself as an artist. “I had in my head, well, I must not have been 12 years old … that I was going to be a painter“, she would have said one day. Retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and more recently at the Center Pompidou have made it possible to familiarize the general public with the abstract and colorful paintings of the American.
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The Museum of Fine Art (MFA) in Houston has decided to look into its photographic practice. This is the first time that a museum has dedicated an entire exhibition to the photographic work of this pioneer of modernity. A hundred pictures make up “Georgia O’Keefe, Photographer“, mostly in black and white and all from recently rediscovered archives. Canvases and drawings complement them to give visitors to the MFA a glimpse into the breadth of the American artist’s career.
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If Georgia O’Keefe was familiar with photography during the first decades of her life, she seized on this medium following her marriage to the photographer, gallery owner and promoter of modern European art. Alfred Goldfinch. He photographs her tirelessly, most often nude, while she helps him print her prints and even design her exhibitions.
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But it wasn’t until the middle of the years 1950, after the death of her husband, thatO’Keefe begins to take his own photographs. “She expressed her unique perspective in all aspects of her life and, when she began practicing photography in the mid-1950s, his unique identity and artistry were well established“, notes the Museum of Fine Art in Houston.
The exhibition “Georgia O’Keefe, Photographer“is to be discovered until January 17, 2022 in the Texan Museum.
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