Back to the desert for O'Keeffee

And more O'Keeffee's

More of the O'Keeffe's I captured

If I remember rightly, there were more than a few years that I lived with an O'Keeffe painting on my wall in monthly calendars.  I may still have a few of my favorite paintings stashed away, thinking I would frame them.  But walking through her museum was a very heady experience, and I didn't take photos of ALL of the works on display.

 This is a huge canvas.

Beautiful paintings and clay sculptures

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More joy to share with you from my recent trip to Santa Fe NM. (I shared some of the O'Keeffe works Here.) In the Georgia O'Keefe exhibit are also some lovely pottery sculptures...abstract and with detailed finishing that I've never seen before. The museum's description of this exhibit is...

"As part of its ongoing Contemporary Voices series, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum presents work by Ken Price (1935-2012). One of the foremost American sculptors of his day, Price was also an accomplished graphic artist. Ten ceramic sculptures by Price, a longtime resident of Taos, New Mexico, will be displayed on pedestals throughout the Museum’s galleries. The organic, sensual forms, and chromatic complexity of Price’s sculptures will be paired and juxtaposed with O’Keeffe’s still life and landscape subjects, inviting visitors to view both artists in a new light. Watercolors by Georgia O’Keeffe will be presented alongside kindred works on paper, an homage to the high desert, by Ken Price.

I had to chase down the biographical information that told of her last 13 years having an assistant (Juan Hamilton) who was a potter and helped her write her biography, and who was designated to receive a substantial portion of her estate. The family contested that will and settled with Hamilton. I just wanted to clarify that Ken Price had not been that young man.

 I tried shining my phone's flashlight into the black hole, and it was so black that I couldn't see anything...

Photo of a photographer.

A photographer with a smile going to another photographer.  Source Appalachian Coal Fields on Facebook.

Here's the prompt for this week at Sepia Saturday...a well dressed woman with an early movie camera.  A photograph of a photographer.  Those are always fun to capture.

Herb Way and one of his photographs in the background on display in the gallery of Black Mountain Center for the Arts.  Herb is one of the professional photographers I'm pleased to know.  His show is " Vietnam: Some of the People"  Beautiful work!

Blog-friend and photographer, Catherine Kerr, has this as her profile on her home page...HERE.

Another great blogger, Linda, from The View from Squirrel Ridge,  uses a modified avatar (cartoon) for her identifying portrait. But there she is holding a camera!

Thank you, fellow bloggers, for allowing me to share your photos of yourselves! I love looking at your work on your blog every day.  This is the "now."  For "then," the sepia folks have some great old photos to share.

One photo-blogger's post included this composite of the photographer at work, but there haven't been any updates on her blog (HERE) since April 2016. 

And here is one of my favorite photographers, not because of his personality, nor all of his art, but because his subject was actually a favorite artist, as well as his wife.

Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz 1944

Poster for Metropolitan Museum, NY. Photo taken in 1918.