We hope you can join us for “Florine Stettheimer and Georgia O’Keeffe: Alternative Modernists,” part of the Preserving Legacies series from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute and NYU Steinhardt Visual Arts Administration Program, featuring Barbara Bloemink and Barbara Buhler Lynes in a conversation moderated by renowned journalist Julia Halperin.    

Florine Stettheimer and Georgia O’Keeffe: Alternative Modernists 
Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 3:00 pm EDT (12:00 pm PDT) 
Einstein Auditorium, Barney Building
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York, NY 10003
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Florine Stettheimer and Georgia O’Keeffe were prominent American women modern artists. As friends, they exhibited widely in galleries and museums — and were highly admired by curators and art critics during the first half of the 20th century. Their approaches to artmaking, however, were remarkably different. Bloemink and Lynes will discuss the artists’ relationship, how they controlled their public image, how their work differs and yet reveals a mutual interest in simultaneity, and more. This event will also call attention to published and forthcoming catalogues raisonnés that document all known works by Stettheimer and O’Keeffe.


Barbara J. Bloemink, Ph.D. is the international expert on the work of the modernist artist Florine Stettheimer. She is the lead scholar of the Florine Stettheimer Catalogue Raisonné, forthcoming from the Wildenstein-Plattner Institute in 2027. Her Florine Stettheimer: A Biography (Hirmer/Univ. of Chicago Press) was chosen by The New Yorker as “One of the best books of 2021.”  In 1995, her Ph.D. dissertation on the artist was published by Yale University Press; that year she co-organized the first full retrospective of Stettheimer’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Bloemink is the author of over 20 books on international modern and contemporary art and design.

Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D. is the leading expert on Georgia O’Keeffe and founding curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. She authored the award-winning Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné (Yale University Press,1999) and numerous other books and essays about the artist and her contemporaries. Her new book on O’Keeffe is coming out spring 2027 with University of New Mexico Press: My Life with Georgia O’Keeffe.

Julia Halperin is an arts and culture journalist, editor, and co-founder of the Burns Halperin Report, the largest report of its kind tracking equity and representation in the art world. She is a contributor to the New York Times, the Financial Times, and W magazine, among other publications. She also serves as editor at large of CULTURED magazine and a contributing editor to The Art Newspaper, where she writes a column about changes and challenges in American art museums. From 2017 to 2022, she was executive editor of Artnet News. 

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