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Curator Sarah Kelly Oehler and professor Adrienne Brown discuss Georgia O’Keeffe and Aaron Douglas, two painters who spent the 1920s approaching the “impossible idea” of making the city their subject.
Initially doubted for their ambitious goals, O’Keeffe, an early career American Modernist living in one of Manhattan’s first residential skyscrapers, and Douglas, a major social realist artist of the Harlem Renaissance, confronted the challenge and envisioned the city through their distinctive lenses.
Curator Sarah Kelly Oehler and professor Adrienne Brown discuss Georgia O’Keeffe and Aaron Douglas, two painters who spent the 1920s approaching the “impossible idea” of making the city their subject.
Initially doubted for their ambitious goals, O’Keeffe, an early career American Modernist living in one of Manhattan’s first residential skyscrapers, and Douglas, a major social realist artist of the Harlem Renaissance, confronted the challenge and envisioned the city through their distinctive lenses.
