Monday, March 06, 2000
O'Keeffe's 'Autumn' here for spring
BY OWEN FINDSEN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Georgia O'Keeffe's painting “Autumn Leaves — Lake George, N.Y.” is making a springtime visit to the Cincinnati Art Museum. The painting is on loan from the Columbus Museum of Art in exchange for Grant Wood's “Daughters of Revolution,” through April.
“Daughters,” the Cincinnati museum's most frequently borrowed painting, is included in Illusions of Eden: Visions of the American Heartland at the Columbus museum.
O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is one of America's most popular artists. Although she is best known for her paintings of the American Southwest, created after she began to paint in New Mexico in 1930, her romantic naturalism began in the 1920s. She spent her summers away from the bustle of New York City at Lake George, where her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, had a cottage.
“Autumn Leaves,” painted in 1924, is one of the earliest paintings in her best-known style: treating small details of nature as large abstract designs. It is an important step in the artist's quest to create a purely American equivalent to European modern art. It is displayed in Modern Gallery 228 at the Art Museum.
“Daughters of Revolution” by Wood (1892-1942) is one of the great icons of American Regionalist painting, second only to his “American Gothic.”
Cincinnati Art Museum acquired “Daughters” in 1959 from actor Edward G. Robinson. Throughout 1999, the painting was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York as part of The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000.
When Illusions of Eden closes April 30 in Columbus, it will tour Europe and the United States through 2001, but “Daughters” won't go along. The painting will return to Cincinnati, when “Autumn Leaves” goes back to Columbus.
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