The NDSU Memorial Union Art Gallery currently has a collection of Georgia O’Keeffe’s artwork on exhibit. The exhibit will be on display until Sept. 19.
The exhibit contains 24 limited edition prints by O’Keeffe as well as an illustrated autobiographical book written by her, titled “Georgia O’Keeffe.” Subjects include flowers, bones, rocks and landscapes as well as innovative forms of abstraction. O’Keeffe’s media include oil, watercolor and acrylic.
O’Keeffe was born in Sun Prairie, Wis., in 1887 and died March 6, 1986, in Santa Fe, N.M. She graduated from the Chatham Protestant Episcopal Institute in Williamsburg, Va., in 1904 and later studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. She married pioneer photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) in 1924. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, O’Keeffe traveled around the world and had a number of major shows in the U.S.
In 1985, O’Keeffe received the Medal of the Arts from President Ronald Reagan. Some of O’Keeffe’s additional accomplishments include election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the first retrospective show of a woman's art at the Museum of Modern Art. O’Keeffe also was awarded the Gold Medal of Painting by the National Institute of Arts and Letters.