Georgia O’Keeffe:
The Artist’s Landscape
Photographs by Todd Webb
Curated by Jack Woody
O'Keeffe on the Portal, Ghost Ranch, 1964. Gelatin silver print.
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Artist’s Landscape, Photographs by Todd Webb, is an intimate and brilliant view of one artist’s life seen trough the eyes of another, this exhibition draws on Webb’s 30-year photographic record of O’Keeffe’s life and the Southwest landscape, rooms, and artifacts that filled her composition. Through his sensitive photographic record, we see the qualities of texture and light in these settings that were so central to her art. The photographs date from 1955 to 1981.
WORKS
40
DIMENSIONS
16 x 20 to 20 x 24 (inches)
40.64 x 50.8 to 50.8 x 60.9 (cm)
SPACE REQUIREMENTS
160 linear feet (48.7 linear meters)
INQUIRIES
exhibitions@curatorial.org
626.577.0044
CURATOR BIOGRAPHY
Jack Woody is one of the world’s most important photo book publishers, yet remains relatively unknown. He divides his time between Santa Fe and New Orleans, continuing to publish books he likes, not taking into account their eventual commercial success.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Todd Webb was born in Detroit in 1905. He studied photography under Ansel Adams, and was friend of Alfred Stieglitz. He served in the United States Navy during WWII, and later worked with Roy Stryker and Standrad Oil Company, traveling and photographing throughout Europe. Webb worked for the United Nations from 1955 to 1969. He was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1955 and 1956, and a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship in 1979.
PUBLICATION
Georgia O’Keeffe. Todd Webb 1984 by Twelvetrees Press.
For nearly thirty years Todd Webb has been forming a photographic record of Georgia O'Keeffe's life along with her Southwest landscape and artifacts. Webb, with full cooperation from O'Keeffe, has produced this remarkable, extended, intimate portrait of the revered artist.