Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Transforms with Abstract Works

SANTA FE, NM. (AP)- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has been transformed. Missing are the iconic paintings of flowers, bones and colorful landscapes that have made the American modernist famous the world over. In their place are streaks of yellow and red, brilliant pastel swirls, blocks of contrasting color and stark charcoal lines slicing across nearly bare sheets of paper. Cast aside any doubts, though. The museum hasn’t been taken over by another artist. These are in fact O’Keeffe’s. The museum is showcasing a special collection of more than 100 drawings, paintings and sculptures as part of “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction.” Organized along with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the exhibition’s stop in Santa Fe is its only presentation in the western United States. “A part of her work has been relatively unknown for so long, so it’s been exciting to bring t

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