{image1}Georgia O'Keeffe's work is some of the most recognizable, popular and beloved American art and her recent show which helped launch the Calatrava-designed addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum was proof of that. So, you can't blame MAM for sticking with a good thing sometimes.
Starting Thurs., Sept. 4, all of the museum's 14 paintings by O'Keeffe, a Sun Prairie native, will be on permanent display in the Bradley Galleries. At the start, there will also be a pair of photographic portraits of O'Keeffe by her husband, landmark photographer Alfred Stieglitz. About a month later, those photographs will be replaced with a pair of O'Keeffe paintings loaned to the museum.
The exhibit coincides with the return of many of the works from the acclaimed "O'Keeffe's O'Keeffe's," which traveled to other cities after it opened in Milwaukee in 2001.
Milwaukee Art Museum has the fourth-largest collection of works by O'Keeffe. The museum also owns eight works on paper that will not be included in the permanent exhibit.
"Having all of the paintings on view in the same gallery for the first time really allows people to see the strength and depth of our O'Keeffe collection," said MAM Director and CEO David Gordon.
The collection was built on a cache of O'Keeffe canvases donated by Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley. When the museum opened its 1975 addition, O'Keeffe visited, helping to cement the relationship. Twenty-odd years later, 10 additional works were gifted to the museum by the Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation and Jane Bradley Pettit, Bradley's daughter.
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Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
