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May 23, 2013
LECTURE

Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

7 – 8 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collecti...
Pedernal -- From the Ranch #1
Title:Pedernal -- From the Ranch #1
Artist:Georgia O'Keeffe
Date:1956
Creation Place:North America, United States
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Cowles
Image Copyright:©The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Number:64.43.2
O'Keeffe was particularly fond of Pedernal Peak, a prominent mesa near her home at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. "It is my private mountain," she once said, "God told me if I painted it enough, I could have it." In an unusual juxtaposition, she has framed the mountain within the opening of an abstracted bone, a common motif in her later work.