Work of Stieglitz Circle Artists on View at Reynolda House M

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Work of Stieglitz Circle Artists on View at Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Monday, June 1, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sharyn Turner
336.758.5580
sturner@reynoldahouse.org
or Sarah Mansell
336.758.5524
manselss@reynoldahouse.org

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (May 19, 2009) Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents a small, focused exhibition titled "The Stieglitz Circle: Beyond O'Keeffe" in the Northeast Bedroom Gallery of the historic house. The exhibition of six works selected from art in the Reynolda House collection will be on view June 5 through November 15, 2009.

Master photographer Alfred Stieglitz may be best remembered for championing the work of his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. But the role he played in advancing the cause of modern art and popularizing new avant-garde styles from Europe was perhaps even more important. Beginning in 1905, Stieglitz devoted his New York gallery, known as 291, to the work of emerging modernists such as O'Keeffe, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Alfred Maurer, Abraham Walkowitz, and Max Weber.

While Reynolda's own work by Georgia O'Keeffe, "Pool in the Woods, Lake George" travels to the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Phillips Collection as part of the exhibition "Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction," this Reynolda House exhibition will focus on the work of her contemporaries and examine the influence that Stieglitz had on artists beyond O'Keeffe.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation's premier American art museums, with masterpieces by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gilbert Stuart among its permanent collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features traveling and original exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events. The museum is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails. For more information, please visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

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