Lost O'Keeffe work displayed at college
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. —
Georgia O'Keeffe’s bold land
scapes and paintings of animal
3ones identify her so strongly
tfith New Mexico that her ado
escent years in Virginia tend to
;et overlooked.
Also largely forgotten is a
1938 exhibition - her first solo
show in the South - at the
College of William and Mary,
where the artist returned to
iccept her first honorary degree.
The university re-creates
that "lost” exhibition with
‘Georgia O’Keeffe in
nVilliamsburg: A Re-Creation of
the Artist's First Public
Exhibition in the South.” The
show opens Saturday at the col
lege’s Muscarelle Museum of
The show also will include
recently discovered O'Keeffe let
ters, other historical documents
ind a 6-and-a-half-minute
lome movie, never before
/iewed publicly, showing
3'Keeffe on campus to receive
the degree.
"To be able to add some
thing to the biography of an
\merican icon, I think, is signif
icant,” said Bonnie G. Kelm,
director of the Muscarelle and
associate professor of art and art
listory.
The original exhibition was
important because O’Keeffe and
tier husband, art dealer and
photographer Alfred Stieglitz,
selected eight paintings repre
senting her work during the pre
idous 10 years, when O'Keeffe
reached maturity and fame,
SCelmsaid.
"I am glad that you will have
the paintings to speak for me,”
D’Keeffe wrote in a letter to
then-college President John
Stewart Bryan. The artist dis
iiked public speaking and did
not make a speech during the
graduation ceremony.
The ninth painting in the
show was 1932’s “White Flower,”
to the school in honor of
O'Keeffe’s degree.
The Rockefeller family was
restoring Colonial Williamsburg
at the time.
The show was never
reviewed, likely because it lasted
just six days.
Only a picture of O'Keeffe in
her cap and gown appeared in
The New York Times. Re-creat
ing the show is an opportunity
to document it properly, Kelm
said.
The works - flower paint
ings, a view of New York City,
southwestern landscapes and a
bone painting - include some
real gems, said Lynn Marsden
Atlass, curator of American and
contemporary art at the
Chrysler Museum of Art in
Norfolk.
“What you’ve got is a small
exhibition but a beautiful cross
section of the work she was
doing the time,” Marsden-Atlass
said. “Each piece is in and of
itself exquisitely beautiful.’’
Officials hit upon re-creat
ing the 1938 exhibition when
Ann C. Madonia, curator of col
lections, did some research in
the university’s Swem Library
archives.
That exhibition was briefly
mentioned in some O’Keeffe
biographies, but there was no
information about what was in
it, how long it was or who organ
ized it
Madonia was able to fill in
some gaps when she uncovered
correspondence between
O'Keeffe and Bryan, and letters
from Leslie Cheek Jr., chairman
of the art department, to
O’Keeffe and Stieglitz.
Madonia also found a hand
written inventory of the paint
ings that had been in the 1938
show. Barbara Buhler Lynes,
director of the Georgia O’Keeffe
Research Institute and curator
of collections at the Georgia
O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe,
N.M., identified the handwrit
' 'It will be lovely to see the Williamsburg
country again with the spring leaves. I must
assure you that / never even imagined ever
going there or any other place for an honorary
degree. It is quite outside my usual way of
thinking so it is very much a surprise to me. A
pleasant surprise. ”
Georgia O’Keeffe
In a letter to her former college William and Mary
mg as that of Stieglitz.
Lynes helped the Muscarelle
identify and track down the
eight paintings, seven of which
have been borrowed from pri
vate collectors and other muse
ums for the re-created exhibi
tion. One painting, "Yellow
Hickory Leaves With Daisy,” will
be represented by a photo
because it is too fragile to travel.
For the re-creation, the walls
in the display area will be paint
ed bluish white and trimmed in
silver gray, as O'Keeffe had spec
ified, according to a news
release written at die time.
Kelm and Madonia say they
hope the exhibition will dispel
myths concerning O’Keeffe,
including the notion that she
supposedly was aloof and did
not care about thie degree. The
home movie, which Lynes
obtained from the O’Keeffe fam
ily, shows a smiling, waving
O’Keeffe.
“Later on, everyone remem
bers her being very severe, but
this is very obviously a joyous
occasion,” Madonia says.
O’Keeffe's family moved to
Williamsburg from Sun Prairie,
Wis., in 1902, when her father
read promotional literature
claiming that Williamsburg was
free from tuberculosis. She fin
ished her senior year of high
school, then joined her family in
Williamsburg in 1903. Her two
brothers attended William and
Mary, which only admitted male
students at the time.
O’Keeffe attended the Art
Institute of Chicago in 1905 but
left after a year. She returned to
Williamsburg, contracted
typhoid fever in 1906 and spent
most of the year at home, recov
ering.
She went to New York City in
1907 to study at the Art Students
League but was in Williamsburg
during half of 1908 because her
mother was sick. In 1909, the
family moved to Charlottesville.
O’Keeffe later moved to New
York and to a ranch in New
Mexico.
By the 1930s, O’Keeffe gen
erally was acknowledged as one
of the country's leading artists.
In recognition of her achieve
ments, William and Mary con
ferred upon her its first hon
orary degree in fine arts.
“It will be lovely to see the
Williamsburg country again
with the spring leaves,” O’Keeffe
wrote to the college president
on March 26, 1938. "I must
assure you that I never even
imagined ever going there or
any other place for an honorary
degree. It is quite outside my
usual way of thinking so it is very
much a surprise to me. A pleas
ant surprise.”
O’Keeffe died in 1986 at age
98.
The exhibition will remain at
the Muscarelle until May 27,
then travel to the Georgia
O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe.
Anniversary of'Catcher'to remain unpublicized
Inc ASSOCIATED PRESS
This year marks the 50th
anniversary of J.D. Salinger’s ’The
Catcher in the Rye.” But don’t
sxpect to hear that from his pub
isher.
A paperback edition just
released makes no reference to
the anniversary. There will be no
official readings, no panel discus
sions, not even a press release. You
will be lucky to get Little, Brown
and Co., a division of AOLlime
Warner Inc, to even mention it
The obvious, unstated reason
is Salinger himself. He cannot
bear to have others talk about
him.
“No comment,” said Terry
Adams, vice president and direc
tor of trade paperbacks for Little,
Brown, when asked why there
would be no publicity.
Adams has good reason to be
carefuL Not only is the 82-year-old
author famous for avoiding the
press, he has a history of stopping
others from discussing him:
In 1982, Salinger sued a man
who allegedly tried to sell a ficti
tious interview with die author to
a magazine. The man agreed to
desist
Five years later, another
Salinger legal action resulted in an
important decision by the U.S.
Supreme Court. The high court
refused to allow publication of Ian
Hamilton’s unauthorized biogra
phy of Salinger that quoted from
the author’s unpublished letters.
Salinger had copyrighted
them when he learned what the
book was to include.
In 1991, Brandeis University
announced Salinger had been
selected for one of nine arts
awards it was giving out. But then
Brandeis withdrew the award,
saying Salinger thought it focused
unwanted attention on him and
might lead people to think he
would show up for the ceremony.
Inl996, his agents pursued the
author of a Web site devoted to
Salinger, and it was taken down.
“I have no comment,” his
agent, Phyllis Westberg, said
Thursday when asked how, or
whether, Salinger would want the
anniversary of'' Catcher" to be
observed. "I don't answer ques
tions about him.”
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