Georgia O'Keeffe at the Phillips

Place:	Georgia O'Keefe Exhibit at the Phillips Collection
Location:	1600 21st Street Northwest Washington, DC 20009-1090
Hours:	Tue - Sat: 10:00am – 5:00pm Sun: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Website:	http://www.phillipscollection.org

Last Sunday, the Crafty ones decided to go to the Phillips Collection to see the Georgia O'Keefe exhibit. We knew we needed to go before the closing date was upon us. The exhibit is great, it shows you a lot of her early works and pictures from her "Cubist period". I had never thought of O'Keefe as a cubist painter but after observing some of her early abstractions you can not but identify the impact this movement had on her and her work.

The exhibit is a bit disorganized in my opinion, it goes by theme instead of in chronological order, but you get to see in just a few rooms the breadth of her work, from flowers to clouds, with some very interesting large format abstract painting of doors and gardens. I think the exhibit would work better if they showed you her work chronologically or with better explanations, maybe we should have tried the cell-phone tour, but i felt that the works they show at the exhibit are beautiful, but somehow I missed what they were trying to explain to me.

Regardless, if you are in DC and you have time, it is my opinion that you should definitely go to the Phillips and see the exhibit, her paintings are beautiful and there is something for everyone in this exhibit. It is because of this that we are giving the exhibit 3 owls.