Lecture SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 4:30 PM Live and Learn: The Modernist Cause in 1920s America

This talk explores the 1920s as an unusually productive decade of creative expression and public education in the field of modern art. Through the efforts of many the modernist campaign reached an ever-widening audience, contributing to its growing popular acceptance, which endures today.

Sylvia Yount, Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

St. Francis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 107 West Palace Avenue. $5, Members free. Reservations: 505.946.1039.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 6 PM Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

In Full Bloom: The Life and Art of Georgia O'Keeffe, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp uncovers the woman behind the legend, carefully revealing the life of O'Keeffe through her work, her letters, and dozens of interviews with those closest to O'Keeffe during her lifetime. As the first biographer to have use of the complete catalogue of O'Keeffe's work, and as one of the few biographers to have interviewed Dorothy Norman, Stieglitz's colleague, Drohojowska-Philp sheds new light on O'Keeffe's motivations for leaving New York for New Mexico, where she effectively redefined herself. Rather than the bold, audacious woman most of us assume O'Keeffe always to have been, she is revealed in this book as someone whose disappointments drove her to personal and artistic self-discovery.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp is a West Coast contributor to ARTnews and Artnet and a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times. An art critic and journalist since 1980, Drohojowska-Philp also writes about design for Architectural Digest, Metropolitan Home, and Western Interiors and Design. She was chair of liberal arts and sciences at Otis College of Art and Design for nine years. She lives in Los Angeles.

Free At the Museum

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 7 PM A Heart that Fights the World This lecture will tell the story of Alfred Stieglitz's fierce support of what he called "my babies"-Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur G. Dove, and Marsden Hartley-through the eyes of collector Duncan Phillips, who tried in his own way to "join" in "The Cause."

Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Senior Curator of The Phillips Collection. Dr. Elizabeth Hutton Turner is a specialist in early-20th-century modern art and the curator of the exhibition and author of the catalogue In the American Grain: Dove, Hartley, Marin, O'Keeffe, and Stieglitz. Other exhibits she has curated and catalogues she has coauthored include Arthur Dove: A Retrospective; Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things; and Two Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Before joining The Phillips Collection, Dr. Turner worked for the National Museum of American Art and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

St. Francis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 107 West Palace Avenue. $5, Members free. Reservations: 505.946.1039.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2-4 PM Collectors' Roundtable The eye, the mind, and the passion of the collector are fascinating to witness. This panel discussion will feature Gifford Phillips, a longtime arts supporter and nephew of Duncan Phillips, founder of The Phillips Collection, as well as other renowned collectors. The lively conversation will be moderated by George G. King, the Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

St. Francis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 107 West Palace Avenue. $10, Members $8. Reservations: 505.946.1039.

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The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, which opened July 17, 1997, is dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of Georgia O'Keeffe and to the study and interpretation of American Modernism (1890-present). The 13,000 square-foot Museum houses a permanent collection of more than 130 works by O'Keeffe. For visitors hours and exhibition information, call 505.946.1000 or visit our website, www.okeeffemuseum.org

Media Contact: Linda Milanesi +1 (505) 946 1050 lindam@okeeffemuseum.org