In its first exhibition of 2022, the Fondation Beyeler in Basel is showing works by an outstanding figure in modern US art. Starting on January 23, the Swiss art museum will present the retrospective Georgia O'Keeffe, a comprehensive overview of the oeuvre of the artist of the same name, which spans around six decades. In doing so, the exhibition aims to focus on the relevance of the radical way in which O’Keeffe (1887-1986) saw and rendered her objects. To this end, a wide-ranging selection of various works by the artist will be on display. The paintings, some of which are rarely shown, come from both public and private collections and paint an impressive picture of one of the most important female painters of the 20th century. The comprehensive Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective can be visited at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel until May 22, 2022.
Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, on November 15, 1887, Georgia Totto O'Keeffe is considered one of the most significant U.S. painters of the 20th century. She attended both the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York, and from 1914-1915 was a student of the influential art theorist and teacher, as well as landscape painter, printer, and photographer Arthur Wesley Dow. In 1924 she married Alfred Stieglitz, a U.S. photographer, gallery owner and patron of the arts, and by the mid-1920s had become an internationally renowned and highly regarded artist. She was known for her oil paintings of flowers, flames, cityscapes, landscapes, and animal skulls or bones. While her earlier works were primarily abstract, she increasingly turned to representational work beginning in her 40s.
