Aug 3, 2018

O'Keeffe show

Yesterday, I went to the Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawaii show at the New York Botanical Garden. In 1939, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now Dole) commissioned O'Keeffe to produce paintings for their magazine ads and flew her to Hawaii.

The show features plants native to Hawaii, about fourteen of her paintings, plus a lot of her sketches and photos. My favorite painting in the show is the one at the top of this 2012 New York Times article about her trip. I'd never given much thought to where pineapples come from, but I know now.

[Photo of Hawaiian Pineapple Company advertisement featuring Georgia O'Keeffe's Heliconia Crab's Claw Ginger, 1939] in The Saturday Evening Post, 212, No. 42, April 13, 1940