Georgia O'Keeffe's style of dress became an intimate part of her artistic identity. O'Keeffe dressed like she painted, highly valuing abstraction, simplicity, and seriality. In this illustrated talk, guest curator and art historian, Dr. Wanda M. Corn, explores the way O'Keeffe used her distinctive taste in clothes to model for photographers, creating a public persona for herself that still dominates the American imagination today.
Dr. Wanda M. Corn is the Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University. She is an American art and cultural historian and scholar of art and photography from the late 19th- to mid-20th centuries. During her career at Stanford University she brought John D. Rockefeller's personal collection to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Her exhibition and book, "The Great American Thing," focused on artists such as Grant Wood and Andrew Wyeth. She has received numerous awards including the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award and the Archives of American Art's Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History.
"Dressing for the Photographer, Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Clothes" was presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Georgia O'Keeffe: Art, Image, Style," organized by the Brooklyn Museum with guest curator Dr. Wanda M. Corn. The exhibition was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and was on view at the Wichita Art Museum March 30 through June 23, 2019.
Originally recorded the afternoon of Saturday, March 30, 2019 in the Howard E. Wooden Lecture Hall at the Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kansas.
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