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Known primarily as a painter, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) also made extraordinary series of works in charcoal, pencil, watercolor, and pastel. In this talk, Samantha Friedman, curator of The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time, will speak about the radical, serial practice on paper of O'Keeffe—an artist who studied at the Art Students League at the very beginning of her career.
O’Keeffe enrolled at the Art Students League in 1907, attending classes with F. Luis Mora, Kenyon Cox, and William Merritt Chase. Her 1908 painting Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot earned her a scholarship to study at the League’s summer school at Lake George. Best known today for her flower paintings, O’Keeffe also made works on paper throughout her long career. Georgia O'Keeffe: To See Takes Time, on view April 9—August 12 at MoMA, reunites more than 120 drawings and paintings, offering a rare glimpse of O’Keeffe’s working methods.
See Georgia O’Keeffe’s Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot (1908) and Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe (c. 1908) by Eugene Speicher in the League’s Registration Office.
Samantha Friedman is Associate Curator in MoMA’s Department of Drawings and Prints, where she is currently organizing Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time, opening in April 2023. Past exhibition projects include Cézanne Drawing (2021; with Jodi Hauptman); Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury (2020); Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern (2019; with Jodi Hauptman); Dadaglobe Reconstructed (2016; with Adrian Sudhalter); Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (2014-15; with Jodi Hauptman and Karl Buchberg); and Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration (2012). She has authored multiple essays for these exhibitions’ catalogues, as well as the children’s books Matisse’s Garden and What Degas Saw (MoMA, 2014 and 2016). She holds a BA from Northwestern University and an MA from Columbia University.
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