T.C. Cannon and Georgia O’Keeffe – a powerful choice for side-by-side exhibitions that I visited this week at the Peabody Essex Museum.
T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America is currently displayed right next to Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style – lucky timing for me that I was able to visit the museum while both exhibitions are hanging. (If you’d like to do the same, move fast – Georgia O’Keeffe comes down at the end of the week.)
As described by the museum:
Cannon interrogated American history and popular culture through his Native lens, and exercised a rigorous mastery of Western art historical tropes while creating an entirely fresh visual vocabulary. T.C. Cannon: At the Edge of America celebrates Cannon’s creative range and artistic legacy through nearly 90 paintings and works on paper, as well as poetry and music.
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Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style is the first exhibition to explore the art, image and personal style of one of America’s most iconic artists. O’Keeffe’s understated and carefully designed garments, many never before exhibited, are presented alongside photographs and her paintings, illuminating O’Keeffe’s unified modernist aesthetic and distinctive self-styling.
