O'Keeffe Museum transforms with abstract works

[June 14, 2010]  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe 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.

The museum is showcasing more than 100 drawings, paintings and sculptures as part of "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction." The show attracted a few thousands visitors in the opening weekend, and will run through Sept. 12.

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.

[Associated Press; By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN]

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