Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams
Natural Affinities
Georgia O'Keeffe, Abstraction White Rose, 1927, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation; © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Ansel Adams, Leaves, Frost, Stump, October Morning, Yosemite National Park, c. 1931; The Center for Creative Photography; University of Arizona; © 2008 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Georgia O'Keeffe, Ranchos Church No.1, 1929; Norton Museum of Art; West Palm Beach Florida; © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Ansel Adams, Saint Francis Church, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, c. 1929; The Center for Creative Photography; University of Arizona; © 2008 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
Georgia O'Keeffe, Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of Marie's II, 1930; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Gift of The Burnett Foundation; © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Ansel Adams, Winter Sunrise, the Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California, 1944; The Center for Creative Photography; University of Arizona; © 2008 The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
May 30 - September 07, 2009
This exhibition brings together for the first time over one hundred photographs and paintings by two of America's best-known artists: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) and Ansel Adams (1902-1984). O'Keeffe and Adams met in 1929 when both were in Taos, New Mexico, and began a lifelong friendship based on a profound shared appreciation for the natural world. Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities establishes the artists' skill at capturing the essence of the world around them and reveals numerous parallels between their distinctive visions of nature.
