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| Georgia O'Keeffe, Flying Backbone, 1946, The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Fisk University |
The Alfred Stieglitz Art Collection donated to Fisk University by Georgia O'Keeffe will be on display at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art (600 Museum Way) in Bentonville, Arkansas from November 9, 2013 to February 14, 2014.
The collection was one of the six donations of Alfred Stieglitz's collected artworks that Georgia O’Keeffe made following the death of her husband in 1946.
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| Georgia O'Keeffe with Fisk University Student and Carl Van Vechten, Fisk University Collection |
In addition to gifts to the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress, her donation of 101 pieces of art to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (whose enrollment is in the hundreds) came as a surprise. Encouraged by writer Carl Van Vechten, O’Keeffe gave the gift to Fisk "in recognition of the school’s mission to educate blacks at a time when Southern universities remained segregated," according to the New York Times.
The Stieglitz Collection includes Georgia O'Keeffe's seldom seen Flying Backbone (above) and her 1927 oil, Radiator Building, night New York.
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| Georgia O'Keeffe, Radiator Building - Night New York, 1927, The Stieglitz Collection, Fisk University |
Included in the collection were photographs by Alfred Stieglitz such as The Steerage and From the Hand of Man.
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| Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902, Stieglitz Collection, Fisk University |
For an interesting summary discussion of the disputed Stieglitz Collection, which includes a link to a List of all of the art in the Fisk University Stieglitz Collection, see Allison Meier's article Long Disputed Stieglitz Collection To Be Unveiled This Fall.
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| Picasso, Pablo, Tete la Femme, 1904, Stieglitz Collection, Fisk University |
The Fisk University Stieglitz Collection also includes an early Diego Rivera.
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| Rivera, Diego, Le Sucrier et les Bougies, 1915, Stieglitz Collection, Fisk University |
If you are in Arkansas this Fall or Winter, you'll have a chance to see this amazing collection at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville.
What do you think of the courts decision to approve Fisk's $30 million sale of a stake in the collection to the Arkansas museum created by WalMart heiress Alice Walton and the agreement that calls for the collection to be rotated every two years between the school and the museum?
Please join in the discussion and leave your comments below.
So the students of Fisk and people of Nashville and TN lose. It was a hidden jewel at Fisks, not promoted at all. Wonder how many people in Bentonville will see it? A coup for the heiress to show her friends. O'keefe's generosity and intent violated.
ReplyDeleteSo the students of Fisk and people of Nashville and TN lose. It was a hidden jewel at Fisks, not promoted at all. Wonder how many people in Bentonville will see it? A coup for the heiress to show her friends. O'keefe's generosity and intent violated.
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ReplyDeleteThe museum in Bentonville is free and this side exhibit is $5. Though it sounds like hick-town and it is connected to the Duck Dynasty Museum (WalMart), Crystal Bridges is a wonderful, world-class place to hang such pieces. I doubt O'Keefe would be too upset. Artwork is for everyone. If it was a hidden jewel, all the better that more of us get to see it.
ReplyDeleteCrystal Bridges is becoming known as a major American art museum as such, the collection will be seen by far more people than at Fisk's, which, as I understand it, can ill afford to maintain the collection now. Because it's in Arkansas, one way approach is to view it as an art located in central USA. The permanent collection is a core, a backbone, for what America is, was, and will be. Crystal Bridges' buildings are art in themselves, sculptural and interesting.
ReplyDelete(corrections to my last post) Crystal Bridges is becoming known as a major American art museum as such, the collection will be seen by far more people than at Fisk's, which, as I understand it, can ill afford to maintain the collection now. Because it's in Arkansas, one approach is to view it as art located in central USA because the permanent collection is a core, a backbone, for what America is, was, and will be. Crystal Bridges' buildings are art in themselves, sculptural and interesting. An art lover in Arkansas.
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