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Dry Bones And Desert Blooms: Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico

This course is a favorite of first-time participants.

Learn from SMU’s resident expert on Georgia O’Keeffe, Randall Griffin. This course will preview highlights from his soon-to-be-published book, Georgia O’Keeffe, which offers a thorough view of the art and life of the artist. You will experience New Mexico as never before by seeing the landscape through the eyes of an art legend. Learn what inspired O’Keeffe through the decades: the vast Taos landscape, skulls, flowers and clouds. An exclusive visit to O’Keeffe’s home in Abiquiu will be a course highlight. Griffin will share how O’Keeffe’s work is situated in the context of modernism, especially surrealism and abstract expressionism. This course is not to be missed!

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About the Instructor

Randall Griffin earned his Ph.D. in art history at the University of Delaware and was a fellow at the National Gallery of Art’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and then an instructor at Vanderbilt University before coming to SMU in 1992. Griffin has received several teaching awards, including SMU’s Golden Mustang Award, the Meadows Distinguished Teaching Professor Award and the Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor Award. He has authored three books, including Homer, Eakins and Anshutz: The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age, which received the Dallas Museum of Art’s Vasari Award, and Winslow Homer: An American Vision, which also received the Dallas Museum of Art’s Vasari Award. Griffin has a forthcoming book, Georgia O’Keeffe, which will be published by Phaidon Press in 2013. The book will be a survey of O’Keeffe’s entire career, but its real focus is O’Keeffe’s use of nature in her work.

“Randall was a real delight to be with…informative,  enthusiastic and interesting!” – Gail Clark

For more information

Contact Allison Curran at taosci@smu.edu or call 214-768-TAOS (8267).