When we think of American artists, two of the most prominent names that arise from the twentieth century are Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe. Ansel Adams born San Francisco, CA 1902-died Monterey, CA 1984 One of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Adams spent a significant part of his adult life in Yosemite National Park. Georgia O'Keeffe born Sun Prairie, WI 1887-died Santa Fe, NM 1986 Painter.
Ansel Adams Portrait of O'keeffe & Orvil Cox photography
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography which favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph. Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams first met in New Mexico in 1929 and maintained a lifelong friendship based on a reverence for the natural world. This exhibition is the first to feature the artwork created in Hawai'i by Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams. These two friends and American modernists are famously associated with the extraordinary places that inspired them; though both visited Hawai'i at the height of their powers, the work they created there has received little attention. Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams both traveled to Hawaii on commercial art assignments. For Adams, this was standard practice as photography was just beginning to emerge as a fine art when he arrived on Oahu by Matson ocean liner in 1948.
Ansel Adams O’Keeffe in the Southwest (1937) Artsy
ABOUT Few artists have served as both a driver of Modernism and as one of its nexus points but Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the precious few. This exhibition looks at one of the meeting points: the friendship between O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams. While working in different mediums, O'Keeffe and Adams transformed Modern art and landscapes. Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature. Natural Affinities, the exhibition of O'Keeffe and Adams' work currently up at American Art (thru January 4, 2009) is an ecstatic look at the work and lives two of the masters of the twentieth century. Adams captured the landscape in luminous black and white, yet in a voice that soars. O'Keeffe painted the world around her—sky, flower, skull. "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities" in this first exhibition to bring together an important selection of these artists' paintings and photographs.
Ansel Adams OKEEFFE (1976) MutualArt
Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe & the Landscapes That Inspired Them Backroads June 25, 2019 California's majestic Yosemite Valley, where waterfalls surge and granite monoliths tower overhead. The quaint village of Giverny, just an hour outside Paris, where an iconic Japanese-style footbridge curves gracefully above a lily-filled pond. Ansel Adams, in Focus December 8, 2021 In this discussion you will learn about the artwork and career of photographer Ansel Adams presented by Alan Ross, who worked side-by-side with him for nearly six years. Ross shares personal experiences and recollections providing a glimpse of the person Adams was beyond being a photographer the natural scene.
Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, Carmel, 1974 Orville Cox and Georgia O'Keeffe Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities , (Contributor), (Contributor) 4.29 45ratings6reviews Want to read Buy on Amazon Rate this book ArtPhotographyNonfiction 176 pages, Hardcover First published September 10, 2008 About the author Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 2books2followers Ratings & Reviews What do you think? Write a Review
O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams The Hawai’i Pictures The O'Keeffe Museum
Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first met in Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. Ansel Adams was enthused and inspired by photographers like Timothy O'Sullivan who had gone out into the American Wilderness to record their feelings for the landscape. Where Georgia O'Keeffe got her inspiration from is difficult to say.
