In Dialogue: Georgia O’Keeffe in the American Southwest with Wanda Corn
For more than fifty-seven years, Georgia O’Keeffe either visited, or lived and worked in New Mexico, turning to its stark, high desert landscapes as a bottomless wellspring of inspiration. To explore how O’Keeffe’s life and work were shaped by her decades in New Mexico, join us for an illuminating dialogue with Wanda Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita of Art History at Stanford University and author of the award-winning, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935, and Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern. Emily Neff, The Kelso Director, will moderate a discussion about how New Mexico’s physical and cultural landscapes informed O’Keeffe’s modernist vision and inspired one of the truly great American artists of all time.
Wanda M. Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita of Art History at Stanford, specializes in the study of twentieth-century modern American art and visual culture.
San Antonio Museum of Art (john_s_auditorium)John L. Santikos Auditorium
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For more than fifty-seven years, Georgia O’Keeffe either visited, or lived and worked in New Mexico, turning to its stark, high desert landscapes as a bottomless wellspring of inspiration. To explore how O’Keeffe’s life and work were shaped by her decades in New Mexico, join us for an illuminating dialogue with Wanda Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita of Art History at Stanford University and author of the award-winning, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935, and Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern. Emily Neff, The Kelso Director, will moderate a discussion about how New Mexico’s physical and cultural landscapes informed O’Keeffe’s modernist vision and inspired one of the truly great American artists of all time.
Wanda M. Corn, the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita of Art History at Stanford, specializes in the study of twentieth-century modern American art and visual culture.
Lectures and Artist Conversations are made possible by generous support from the Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner lecture fund.
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986), It Was Yellow and Pink II, 1959, Oil on canvas; unframed: 91.5 x 76.2 cm (36 x 30 in.), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe 1987.137 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Headshot courtesy Wanda M. Corn.
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