The stark beauty, unusual architecture, and unique light of the American Southwest have inspired artists for generations. Georgia O’Keeffe and the Southwestern Still Life tells the story of the Southwest as seen through the eyes of the artists who lived there. Focusing on still lifes, representations of an object or groups of objects, the exhibition features more than 50 works that provide fascinating examples of art’s capacity to capture the essence of a particular place.

In 1917, Georgia O’Keeffe traveled to New Mexico in search of new inspiration and. in 1949, captivated by the landscape and culture, she settled there permanently.Georgia O’Keeffe and Southwestern Still Life brings to light how O’Keeffe found inspiration in some of the simplest of subjects, and reveals how her depictions of these objects were anything but mundane. Her enlarged views of flowers, trees, shells, rocks, and crosses are emblematic of her embrace of the genre. The sun-bleached bones that she gathered in the New Mexico desert became subjects of some of the most famous depictions of the region. O’Keeffe’s iconic works fueled the imaginations of artists for decades to follow and inspired a vibrant artistic scene that began in the early 20th century and still thrives today.