The exhibition includes 53 works, ranging from Hopi katsina tithu to Hispanic and Native American architecture. 10, through April 28, 2013, and brings to light O’Keeffe’s interest in northern New Mexico. The traveling exhibition, Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam and the Land, will be at the Denver Art Museum from Feb. She was captivated by the cultures and colorful landscapes of New Mexico, which served as inspiration for some of her most interesting Western works. Georgia O’Keeffe, among the great American artist of the 20th century, was drawn to the New Mexico landscape and culture in a way many people could only imagine. I shouldn’t say too much about this because other people might get interested and I don’t want them interested. It’s something that’s in the air, it’s just different, the sky is different, the stars are different, the wind is different. I’d never seen anything like it before but it fitted to me exactly. Ufer's brilliant, boldly painted compositions are distinctive images of the Taos Indian surrounded by the magnificent landscape of the region.When I got to New Mexico that was mine. Included among his other numerous awards are the Chicago Art Institutes's First Logan Prize, the Isidor Gold Medal, the Pennsylvania Academy's Temple Gold Medal and the National Academy of Design's Altman Prize, which he won twice. Ufer was the first New Mexico artist to win a prize at the Carnegie International. During the flu epidemic of 1919, he worked day and night alongside the town's only doctor, ministering to the sick. He was a generous, outspoken man with a sensitive social conscience. Though the Ufers travelled extensively, Taos was their home until Ufer's untimely death in 1936.īy all accounts, Ufer was a colorful personality.
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They were invited to join the Taos Society of Artists and became full members in 1917. Both men were captivated by the little village and decided to stay. The couple returned to Europe for two years, traveling extensively and studying with Walter Thor in Munich.Īfter returning to Chicago in 1914, Ufer, along with fellow artist Victor Higgins, was commissioned by art patron Carter Harrison to paint at Taos. In 1911 he married a Danish-born artist, Mary Fredericksen. He continued his studies at the Art Institute while supporting himself as a commercial lithographer and engraver. He soon decided to pursue a career as a painter and enrolled in the Royal Applied Art School and the Royal Academy, both in Dresden.īy 1899 Ufer had returned to the United States to settle in Chicago. At age seventeen, Ufer followed his mentor to Germany, working as a journeyman printer and engraver. Though Ufer's formal education did not extend beyond grammar school, his promising artistic talent led his father to apprentice him to a commercial lithographer. His father was a master gunsmith noted for his fine engraving work. At the age of four, Ufer moved with his family to Louisville, Kentucky, where he grew up. Walter Ufer was born in Huckeswagen, Germany.
Frederick Arthur Bridgman Paintings (208).
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