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Show exhibitions HORIZON Selections from the Guild of Book Workers October 5-December 30, 2012 The UMFA and the J.Willard Marriott Library Book Arts Program are pleased to present the grand opening of Horizon, a traveling exhibition organized by the Guild of Book Workers. This national, non-profit organization is dedicated to sustaining and promoting all aspects of book artistry. The Guild recently invited its members to contemplate themes of the horizon, including the physical horizon, personal horizons, or the horizon of the book as a bound object The Guild of Book Workers selected fifty-three submitted works in a juried competition, and the Museum is pleased to present them this fall in Horizon. Evening Primrose Now on View "A flower is relatively small ... in a way, nobody sees a flower ... so I said to myself, I'll paint what I see, what the flower is to me, but I'll paint it big [soJ they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.'' - Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, Evening Primrose ( 1947) is currently on loan to the Museum from the Diane and Sam Stewart collection. Perhaps America's most famous female modernist, O'Keeffe spent much of her life in New Mexico painting scenes of the iconic West View O'Keeffe's Evening Primrose this fall in the Art of the American West Gallery on the second floor of the UMFA. and see what inspiring surprise you may find in a seemingly simple flower. ABOVE I Courtesy Robert Walp. Photo © Mary Rezny. BELOW I Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) White Primrose, 1947, oil on canvas. Collection of Diane and Sam Stewart.© 2012 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum I Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. |
