Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Foundation Collection
September 25, 2015 through January 10, 2016

American art experienced radical change a century ago, as a group of innovative, highly-individualistic artists broke with past traditions to define a new art for this country, an art that expressed the energy, vitality, and singular identity of modern America. The artists who led that change are highlighted in this exhibition, featuring more than 60 masterworks from the 1910s to the post-War era by America’s most original abstract painters, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, and a dozen others.

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New Mexico Museum of Art

O’Keeffe in Process
September 11, 2015 through January 17, 2016

O’Keeffe in Process tells the story of the artist’s working technique. Preliminary sketches and photographs are shown alongside finished works to demonstrate the steps, the thinking, and the technical art-making process. The 50 paintings, drawings and support materials span the artist’s career from early portraits of family members, to paintings executed during stays at Lake George, to her iconic depictions of New Mexico, to her discovery of the view from the sky. The exhibition examines what makes an O’Keeffe artwork recognizable as an O’Keeffe and illuminates some of the ways that the artist approached her compositions.

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Event Calendar

View details of events, exhibitions, receptions, lectures, workshops, and more throughout the season of the Fall of Modernism.

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Event Map

Identify and locate the museums, galleries and hotels that are participating in the Fall of Modernism using the interactive google map.

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Event Tickets

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the New Mexico Museum of Art celebrate the Fall of Modernism: A Season of American Art with joint ticketing.

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Participating Galleries

It was built to become the art gallery of the Museum of New Mexico, which had been founded in 1909 by archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett. He had begun holding art shows in the historic Palace of the Governors, then realized that an art gallery would be needed to effectively promote art throughout the region.

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From top to bottom and left to right: 1) Andrew Dasburg (1887–1979) Ledoux Street, Taos, New Mexico (Harwood), c. 1922, oil on paper board, Collection of Jan T. and Marica Vilcek, Promised Gift to The Vilcek Foundation; 2) Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) Berlin Series No. 1, 1913, oil on canvas board, Collection of Jan T. and Marica Vilcek, Promised Gift to The Vilcek Foundation; 3) Georgia O’Keeffe, American, (1887–1986) Dark and Lavender Leaves, 1931, oil on canvas, Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of the Georgia O’Keeffe Estate, 1993; 4) Howard Cook (1901–1980) Complex City, c. 1956, oil on canvas, Collection of Jan T. and Marica Vilcek, Promised Gift to The Vilcek Foundation; 5) Max Weber (1881–1961) Still Life with Bananas, 1909, oil on canvas, Collection of Jan T. and Marica Vilcek, Promised Gift to The Vilcek Foundation.

Sponsors of the Fall of Modernism

By gracious donations and services, the Fall of Modernism would like to thank the following sponsors.