Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 12:00 AM UTCGeorgia O’Keeffe: Flowers and Abstractions - Art History Livestream
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Georgia O’Keeffe: Flowers and Abstractions - Art History Livestream

Learn about iconic American artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s life and see her beautiful flower and abstraction paintings in part 2 of our art history series (part 1 featured her early New York years).

"Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time... S- I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New-Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers... Well - I made you take time to look at what I saw.”
- Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe: Flowers & Abstractions - Art History Livestream
YouTube Slideshow Preview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77p--aKlkI

Georgia O’Keeffe - The New York Years: 1918-1949 - Art History Program
YouTube Slideshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n56gvaF4QU
YouTube Full Program:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBift_QQm-4

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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 - March 6, 1986) was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism".
In 1905, O'Keeffe began art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League of New York. Between 1912 and 1914 she was introduced to the principles and philosophies of Arthur Wesley Dow, who created works of art based upon personal style, design, and interpretation of subjects, rather than trying to copy or represent them. This caused a major change in the way she felt about and approached art. Alfred Stieglitz, an art dealer and photographer, held an exhibit of her works in 1917.
She moved to New York in 1918 at Stieglitz's request and began working seriously as an artist. They developed a professional and personal relationship that led to their marriage in 1924. O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers.
O'Keeffe and Stieglitz lived together in New York until 1929, when O'Keeffe began spending part of the year in the Southwest, which served as inspiration for her paintings of New Mexico landscapes and images of animal skulls. After Stieglitz's death, she lived in New Mexico at Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio in Abiquiú until the last years of her life, when she lived in Santa Fe. In 2014, O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44,405,000, more than three times the previous world auction record for any female artist. After her death, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum was established in Santa Fe.

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Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 3:00 PM UTCWar Updates: Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Gaza, Iran, etc. with Richard & Co.
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War Updates: Ukraine, Russia, Israel, Gaza, Iran, etc. with Richard & Co.

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Richard, Zak, and friends provide updates on the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the Israel-Gaza-Iran conflict.

Additional details to follow.
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Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 8:00 PM UTCMonet and Impressionism: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Art History Livestream
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Monet and Impressionism: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Art History Livestream

You are invited to join us for an online/virtual tour of one of our favorite places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where we'll explore their amazing art collection.
This particular program, one of a series we're hosting on the Met, will feature Claude Monet and Impressionism.
Come learn about Claude Monet and Impressionism through the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Claude Monet & Impressionism – Metropolitan Museum of Art
YouTube Slideshow Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef14a_YNgMI

YouTube Recordings of Previous Monet Programs …

Claude Monet & The National Gallery of Art
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bglS99S0x3o
Full Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEJJfU1phvk

Claude Monet & The Art Institute of Chicago
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzezeQWtOw
Full Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0HPC5rSpI

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Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 to bring art and art education to the American people and is one of the most-visited art museums in the world.

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Tue, Jul 8, 2025, 11:00 PM UTCJuly History Bk Club - "Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold..."
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We have arrived at the beginning of the commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, and - no doubt, this group will read its fair share of related books - starting this July. Nathaniel Philbrick wrote three books on the war for independence. This is the middle of the three: Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution. It captures a short time period within the larger war, starting in 1776 when Washington was less certain of the path forward, and Arnold seemed to do no wrong. Their positions reversed over the next four years, and this book tells that story.

Here is what the publisher has to say about the book:

"Valiant Ambition is a complex, controversial, and dramatic portrait of a people in crisis and the war that gave birth to a nation. The focus is on loyalty and personal integrity, evoking a Shakespearean tragedy that unfolds in the key relationship of Washington and Arnold, who is an impulsive but sympathetic hero whose misfortunes at the hands of self-serving politicians fatally destroy his faith in the legitimacy of the rebellion. As a country wary of tyrants suddenly must figure out how it should be led, Washington’s unmatched ability to rise above the petty politics of his time enables him to win the war that really matters."

Please remember that this is, first and foremost, a book club. Like any local book club, the point is discussion about a shared experience - reading the book! It is not a lecture series. So as usual, get yourself a copy, read it, then join us for another interesting discussion. We continue to meet virtually because so many of our members now join us from locations outside the D.C area.

A zoom link to the discussion will be sent a day before the meeting.
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