Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Makes Over 3,000 Items Available for View Online

Written by Paul Witherspoon Sunday, 14 August 2011 21:43

SANTA FE, NM.- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum has introduced on its website a searchable online database with images of over 3,000 items from the museum’s collection, as well as materials from the archives of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center. Through the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Collections Online, the public can now view items including, among others, images of art and photographs in the Museum Collection and correspondence from Research Center Collections. Online availability of these materials was created to increase public awareness of and access to the museum’s art and Research Center collections.

The database includes more than 900 Georgia O’Keeffe works that illustrate the artist’s wide range of subjects – from iconic flowers and bleached desert skulls to nudes, landscapes, cityscapes, still-lifes and abstractions – dating from 1901 to 1984. Also, materials from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center include selections from our photographic collections, artist and study materials, and archival collections such as the William Innes Homer Archive, Maria Chabot Archive, and the Georgia O’Keeffe General Correspondence.

Founded in 2001 as a component of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center supports scholarship on American modernism (late 19th century-present) in art history, architectural history and design, literature, music and photography. Its competitive scholarship program awards six stipends annually to qualified candidates, and it sponsors symposia, lecture and publication programs. The Research Center collects and houses library and archival materials that relate to the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe and her contemporaries, which are available to in-house and visiting scholars.

Georgia O'Keeffe, the first American woman artist of major stature, achieved a mythic presence in American art, both through the photographs of her by Alfred Stieglitz and others, and through her remarkable paintings. She was the last surviving member of the small group of pioneering modernists that Stieglitz, gathered around him. Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe studied art at The Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League in New York, and the University of Virginia. Early in her career, she taught art in the public schools in Amarillo and at West Texas State Normal School in Canyon.

Visit The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum at :   http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

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