ExhibitionMay 22, 2021
Georgia O’Keefee
The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first retrospective in Spain of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), one of the most important representatives of 20th-century American art. Curated by Marta Ruiz del Árbol, the exhibition is featuring a selection of 90 works, a complete survey of O’Keeffe’s career; a unique opportunity to discover and admire the work of this fascinating artist who is little represented outside the United States. With the five paintings in its collection, the Museo Thyssen is in fact the institution with the most works by the artist outside her native country.
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the few women artists associated with the avant-garde trends of the first half of the 20th century in the United States. After first arousing enormous admiration in artistic circles at the early date of 1916 for her daring abstract works and establishing a reputation as a pioneer of non-figuration, O’Keeffe became one of the principal figures in modern American art. The exhibition opens with some of those works which provoked such surprise in New York towards the end of the second decade of the 20th century, then moves on to a complete survey of the artist’s entire career. The paintings are arranged both chronologically and thematically, allowing visitors to follow a series of masterpieces within her career and to simultaneously appreciate her principal artistic concerns.
This ambitious exhibition project has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 35 international museums and collections, principally in the United States and most notably the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
After Madrid the exhibition will travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and then to the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. The exhibition in Madrid will be open until August 8, 2021.
For more information visit: https://www.museothyssen.org/en
Georgia O’Keeffe is one of the few women artists associated with the avant-garde trends of the first half of the 20th century in the United States. After first arousing enormous admiration in artistic circles at the early date of 1916 for her daring abstract works and establishing a reputation as a pioneer of non-figuration, O’Keeffe became one of the principal figures in modern American art. The exhibition opens with some of those works which provoked such surprise in New York towards the end of the second decade of the 20th century, then moves on to a complete survey of the artist’s entire career. The paintings are arranged both chronologically and thematically, allowing visitors to follow a series of masterpieces within her career and to simultaneously appreciate her principal artistic concerns.
This ambitious exhibition project has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 35 international museums and collections, principally in the United States and most notably the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
After Madrid the exhibition will travel to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and then to the Fondation Beyeler in Basel. The exhibition in Madrid will be open until August 8, 2021.
For more information visit: https://www.museothyssen.org/en
