A special opportunity to see the works of Georgia O Keeffe, one of the true icons of American art, is being offered Jan. 27 by the Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art. The exhibit, which runs through Jan. 30, features 55 of O Keeffe s works, including some of her best-known images. Fees include travel costs, tickets to the exhibit and snacks and drinks during the trip.
Participants are responsible for purchasing lunch at the museum.
The tour group will eat dinner at a restaurant during the return trip. The Poetry of Things examines O Keeffe s beloved contributions to modern art and explores how she approached still-life painting from a modernist perspective. O Keeffe moved from the East Coast to New Mexico in the late 1920s after being inspired by that state s natural environment. She launched a series of paintings that included flowers, trees, shells and bones. She became world famous for reinterpreting traditional still-life components in a modernistic view.