Posters are a wonderful way to feature artwork, especially Georgia O'Keeffe's art, in your home or office.
While many of O'Keeffe's posters are sold at various retail outlets, the store at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Store contains a wealth of posters, sold at reasonable prices, including some of the 20-year-series of collectible posters and book covers of Georgia O'Keeffe paintings from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival.
Founded in 1972, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has become one of the world's preeminent music festivals. With legendary cellist Pablo Casals as honorary president, the Festival 1973 inaugural season hosted six Sunday concerts in Santa Fe and additional performances in other New Mexico and Arizona Communities.
Today, patrons enjoys the more than 80 concerts, recitals, master classes, youth concerts, and open rehearsals, including an Albuquerque Series that debuted in 2008. The off-season Festival includes musical adventures in the Santa Fe public schools.
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art
The Santa Fe Festival has commissioned more than 60 works from composers such as Aaron Copland, Ellen Taeffe Zwilch, Gunther Schuller, and Bret Dean. Beginning in 2010 the Festival began a new Artist-in-Residence program featuring opera star mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in it first year.
Beginning in 1981 Festival performances have been broadcast on national radio networks including National Public radio and the Festival currently produces a series of 13 hour-long broadcasts distributed nationally to more than 32 affiliates worldwide.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Concerts take place in the historic St Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, and at Simms Auditorium at Albuquerque Academy.
The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has garnered enthusiastic acclaim not only from music lovers, but also from art aficionados with its 20-year series of collectible posters and program book covers of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings. The tradition continues with other artists, including Dan Namingha, William Lumpkins, Harry Fonsecca, Nils Hogner, Laura Gilpin, William Penhallow Henderson, and Emmi Whitehotse.
Black Crow with Snow Covered Pink Hills
So many of Georgia O'Keeffe's wonderful paintings have been featured on the programs and posters for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and provide an economic way to collect her art. Two of my favorites are Black Crow with Snow Covered Pink Hills and Hollyhock.Pink with Pedernal, 1937.
But Georgia O'Keeffe's early abstraction, Blue and Green Music holds a special place in my heart.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1919
It would be interesting to hear about your favorites . . .
I got one of them. The 18th
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