During the mid-20th century, many painters, sculptors, and photographers in the United States and Europe looked to nature to find abstraction. Against...
October 30–December 4, 2024
Abstracting Nature: Exploring Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore
Georgia O’Keeffe, Red Hill and White Shell, 1938. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Gift of Isabel B. Wilson in memory of her mother, Alice Pratt Brown. © 2024 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Jud Haggard.
Georgia O’Keeffe, Red Hill and White Shell, 1938. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Gift of Isabel B. Wilson in memory of her mother, Alice Pratt Brown. © 2024 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Jud Haggard.
Take an in-depth look at artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore in this course, tracing their innovative interpretations of nature through O’Keeffe’s intimate paintings and Moore’s monumental sculptures. In conjunction with the exhibition “Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore,” investigate how the artists’ distinct styles and shared fascination with organic forms shaped the trajectory of modern art in the 20th century.
Take the full five-session course or choose the lectures that interest you most.
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Purchase the discounted five-session course package. Please note that this course package is not available after the date of the first session.
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In-Person $120/$150
Online $65/85
Upcoming Events
Lecture
November 6, 2024
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
Georgia O’Keeffe turned nature into art. With deep sensitivity to nuances of color, shape, depth, and line, she transformed the objects she collected...
Lecture
November 13, 2024
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
As one of the most prolific sculptors of the 20th century, Henry Moore has work that can be found in museums and public spaces throughout the world...
Lecture
November 20, 2024
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
Henry Moore’s sculpture arrived in the postwar American city at a moment of crisis, experimentation, and contradiction, when the utopian ideal of...
Lecture
December 4, 2024
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
Whereas the modernist art of Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore was grounded in attachment to nature, a quest for authenticity and originality, and...
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