O'Keeffe painting
OXFORD, Miss. – One of the University of Mississippi Museum‘s original Georgia O’Keeffe paintings is featured in a traveling exhibition that will be on the road through May 2014.
The “Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George” exhibition from the Hyde Collection in New York features the UM Museum piece as the first plate in the catalog. The painting, “Untitled, Abstraction, 1918,” is the earliest dated work of the 58 paintings in the show.
“Our O’Keefe painting is a signature and very significant work of the museum’s permanent collection, and is in regular exhibition-loan demand nationally,” said Robert Saarnio, director of University Museum and Historic Houses. “National visibility of this nature for our University Museum is very important and is a source of great pride, as audiences across the country will see us credited as the lender of this painting.”
The Hyde Collection, in association with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, organized the exhibition that closely examines the extraordinary body of work created by O’Keeffe of and at Lake George in northeastern New York.
From 1918 until the mid-1930s, O’Keeffe spent part of the year at Alfred Stieglitz’s family estate, a 36-acre property just north of Lake George village. The exhibition presents a selection of paintings from both public and private collections.
For more information about the Hyde Collection, visit http://www.hydecollection.org/events_and_programs/current.cfm. For more information about the UM Museum, go to http://museum.olemiss.edu