O’Keeffe, Moore exhibition heading to Montreal
Left to right: Georgia O'Keeffe, 1956 (photo by Yousef Karsh, courtesy of MMFA, gift of Estrellita Karsh in memory of Yousuf Karsh) | Henry Moore, about 1953 (photo by Roger Wood, reproduced with permission of The Henry Moore Foundation)
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present the Canadian premiere of O'Keeffe and Moore: Giants of Modern Art next year from Feb. 10 to June 2.
The large-scale exhibition will be the first time the works of American painter Georgia O'Keeffe have been presented alongside the sculptures of British artist Henry Moore.
The show is organized by the San Diego Museum of Art and will feature more than 120 works and recreations of each artist's studio.
“O'Keeffe's paintings and Moore's sculptures underscore the fundamental relationship between humanity and the natural world," says Mary-Dailey Desmarais, chief curator of the MMFA.
The exhibition’s artworks come mainly from the Henry Moore Foundation in England and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in New Mexico, as well as around 20 museums and private collections. The show will include paintings, works on paper and sculptures made in a range of media. Works include Moore's stringed Bird Basket, 1939, Reclining Figure, 1959-1964, Working Model for Three Piece No. 3: Vertebrae, 1968, and Working Model for Oval with Points,1968-1969, and O'Keeffe's Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3, 1930, Rams' Head, Blue Morning Glory,1938 and Pedernal – From the Ranch #1, 1956.
The Montreal presentation will also include works from its own collection, including a drawing and four sculptures by Moore, as well as a portrait of O'Keeffe photographed by Yousuf Karsh.
Source: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
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