The Performances - Encore Series - Winter 2006
Alfred Stieglitz Loves O'Keeffe Starring Bruce Pileggi as Alfred Stieglitz and ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! Before Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe were married in 1924, they had already forged one of the great artistic partnerships in American history. O'Keeffe was foremost among the American modernist painters Stieglitz championed; she was also his muse and subject of some of his most captivating, haunting, and sought after images, namely the "O'Keeffe Portrait." Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) believed that artistic expression resulted from a balance of "inner and outer vision" with profound personal experience. Because he was determined to win acceptance of photography as an art form equal to painting and sculpture, Stieglitz sometimes referred to all visual arts as "camera work." Stieglitz was the first photographer to be recognized as an artist by American museums, beginning in 1924 when the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, acquired a set of photographs directly from the artist. The dialogue between Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)---and between their photography and painting--began in 1917. Their artistic and personal collaboration remained a source of inspiration and unity for both of these great American artists until the end of Stieglitz's life, and resulted in each creating what O'Keeffe described as a body of "clear and bright and wonderful work." Directed by Robert G. MIller, MMSC's production of Alfred Stieglitz Loves O'Keeffe by Lanie Robertson has delighted audiences since it was first performed in 1998. Bruce Pileggi and Christine Crawfis will once again recreate their roles as Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe. Don't miss it.
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