Georgia O’Keeffe: Drawing in Series

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.

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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.