Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness Of Life

1h 56m   |   Documentary

Exploring the life and art of the most important woman artist of the 20th century. O'Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones and emerged as an iconic role model for women.

Screening will be followed by a Q&A with art historian Nancy Scott.

Nancy Scott is Professor Emerita of Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. She has taught and published on twentieth-century American modernism with a focus on O’Keeffe, Stieglitz and the artists of his circle.
Some of her publications includeCritical Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe (Reaktion Books, 2015);
“Georgia O'Keeffe, Education, and the Art of Philanthropy”The 1949 Gift — The Stieglitz Collection at Fisk University, about the philanthropy of O'Keeffe, who gifted 101 works of art from the Stieglitz Collection to the Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1949. In the deeply segregated South, while the punitive Jim Crow era persisted, O'Keeffe privileged art as a tool for education. Her gift – now co-owned with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in a two- year rotation with Fisk, serves as an important legacy for contemporary initiatives in museums and arts education."

Showtimes

• Sep 06