Georgia O’Keeffe’s Closets: Clothes, Style, and Dressing Modern
With Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946). Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918. Gelatin silver print, 4¾ x 3⅝ in. (11.9 x 9.2 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art; Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund, 1978, 1978-91-1.
Curator and writer Wanda M. Corn will present a lecture related to her upcoming exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern at the Brooklyn Museum (March 3-July 23, 2017). Georgia O’Keeffe’s sartorial style became an intimate part of her artistic identity. She dressed like she painted, highly valuing abstraction, simplicity, and seriality. Drawing from the clothing in her closets when she died, this lecture explores Georgia O’Keeffe’s modern use of dress to join body and art in a common aesthetic.  Corn authored the 1999 award-winning book, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and American Identity, 1915–1935 and is a leading scholar of American modernism. Her numerous awards include being the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award in 2014 from the College Art Association, the learned society for the visual arts.

Free and open to the public, but space is limited

 

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