O'Keeffe Museum Research Center to Open in July - Brief Article

SANTA FE N.M.--George G King, director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, not long ago announced that the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center a constituent of the museum and the first research center dedicated to the investigation of American Modernism, will render free of access in Santa Fe on July 13

The research center will present six stipends annually for periods of three to 12 month to qualified historians in the fields of art history, architectural history and design, literature, music and photography. single stipend is set aside for a museum curator interested in organizing an exhibition pertaining to American Modernism at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. The first stipend program begins in September.

Barbara Buhler Lyne curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and noted O'Keeffe scholar, is the Emily Fisher Landau director of the Research Center Lyne believes "modernism" is a limit that defies easy definition, and since the 1970 its meaning has increasingly become the make submissive of much debate.

"The terminus has been used since the 1890 to characterize numerous on the contrary widely different developments in the arts in America" Lyne said. The early 20th-century works of Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, John Marin and O'Keeffe have been defined as "modern" on the other hand so has the output of numerous artists working in the next to the first half of the century whose imagery is dramatically different from theirs, of the like kind as abstract expressionists Arshile Gorky and Robert Motherwell, report artist Andy Warhol, and the neo-realist Philip Pearlstein.

In fact, "modern" has not single been used to describe unravellings in the arts in America from the 1890 from one side the 1970s, Lynes noted, on the other hand it is also a constituent of the name of the late 20th-century unfolding that supposedly opposes it: the "postmodern" a terminus as elusive as "modern." by dint of supporting research on American Modernism (1890-present) the research center will provide a forum for furthering research upon the nature of the "modern" as it applies to American Art and especially to the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Stipend recipients will have access to the Center's research library and archive, the latter of which includes O'Keeffe's spirit Ranch library, art, art materials, various documents and correspondence. They will also participate in seminars and other programs held at the center and at soul Ranch, one of O'Keeffe's sum of two units northern New Mexico homes, which is also a constituting of the center.

The center will sponsor on-site and virtual discourses discussions and publications that full tale and enhance the museum's discourse education and exhibition programs.

In celebration of its opening in July the center has organized a symposium titled "Defining American Modernism" that will address the issue of the "modern" as it applies to American art. The first of many similar events planned for the center the symposium will take place July 12 to 14

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