While SAM is temporarily closed, we made a short video to take you inside the gallery of our newest installation! Explore O’Keeffe’s unique approach to abstraction through 17 works from the 1910s to the 1930s. At the heart of the installation is "Music, Pink and Blue, No. 1," a recent addition to SAM’s collection and a gift of late Trustee Barney A. Ebsworth. The first complete expression of O’Keeffe’s personal brand of modernism, "Abstract Variations" brings "Music, Pink and Blue, No. 1" together with "Music, Pink and Blue, No. 2," from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, for the first time in Seattle, along with loans from museums across the country.

"Music, Pink and Blue, No. 1" and "No. 2" are important works in O’Keeffe’s long and storied career as examples of pure abstraction. Their shared title and palette draw an immediate connection between musical cadences and painterly hues. By equating her paintings with music O’Keeffe cast herself as a composer, creating beauty not through the principles of representation, but in a language of pure abstraction.
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Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstract Variations
Mar 5 – Jun 28, 2020
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