Soundry Field Trip: The Phillips Collection!
Field Trip to The Phillips Collection!
March 20, 2010 11am-4pm
1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
(February 6-May 9, 2010)
Although painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), a central figure in 20th-century art, is best known for simplified images of recognizable objects, her contributions to American abstraction over the course of her long career were radical. By magnifying and tightly cropping her images, a framing device used by photographers, she found the means to express simultaneously the vastness of nature, the immensity of her own response to it, and a powerful sense of being one with it.
Included in the exhibition are more than 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors by O’Keeffe, dating from 1915 to the late 1970s, and 12 photographic portraits of her by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz. In conjunction with Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction, co-organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe.
Soundry members meet at The Soundry at 10:30 am to carpool. We will either metro or drive to Dupont Circle. Feel free to bring a guest or meet us there at 11am! Tickets to the exhibit are $12 for adults, $10 for students.
