The Artists’ Eye

The Artists' Eye

Wednesday, November 20, 2013
11:00 AM – 9:00 PM (CT)
Temporary Exhibitions – All Galleries
Event Type
Exhibitions
Department
CBMAA – Exhibitions
In 1949 Georgia O’Keeffe donated 101 works of art, ranging from African masks to Modernist paintings, to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.  Most of the objects had been collected by O’Keeffe’s late husband, Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer, gallery owner, and tireless champion of American Modernists, including O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin, among many others. "The Artists’ Eye: Georgia O’Keeffe and the Alfred Stieglitz Collection" celebrates a partnership between Fisk University and Crystal Bridges that allows this important collection to be shared between Nashville and Bentonville.

Alfred Stieglitz was not a collector in a traditional sense, but instead supported those artists he felt were most important in developing a uniquely American version of Modernism.  Stieglitz was an artist in his own right, a pioneer of Modernist photography.  O’Keeffe’s gift to Fisk includes photographs by Stieglitz as well as some of her own paintings. The Artists’ Eye dually celebrates the “eye” of Stieglitz and O’Keeffe as patrons and collectors, but also as artists who interpreted America through camera and brush. An audio tour of the exxhibition is available for download to Apple devices from the iTunes app store, or guests may check out an iPod featuring the tour at no cost; iPods are available at Guest Services.
Adults $5 | Free for Museum Members.  Admission is sponsored for youth ages 18 and younger.  Free admission on Wednesdays, 5 to 9 p.m.
This exhibition is sponsored at Crystal Bridges by Morgan Stanley; Blakeman’s Fine Jewelry; The William M. Fuller Foundation; Greenwood Gearhart Inc.; Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C.; NWA Media/Arkansas Democrat Gazette; Queen Anne Mansion Preservation Trust; and Demara Titzer. Touchscreen monitor sponsored by Saatchi & Saatchi X.