NOVEMBER 12, 2025 : 40th ANNIVERSARY LUNCHEON! GEORGIA O'KEEFE, AMERICAN MODERNIST : FROM LUSH FLOWERS TO THE NEW MEXICO DESERT

Wednesday November 12, 2025

11:30am - 3:00pm

RIVERSIDE YACHT CLUB
102 CLUB ROAD 
RIVERSIDE, CONNECTICUT


Image Courtesy of Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton


speaker : JANETTA REBOLD BENTON Ph.D.

Image Courtesy of Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton

Distinguished Professor of Art History, Pace University , NY.

Dr. Benton is the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar Awards: She was visiting professor in the graduate school of Art History, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China, in 2018, and in the graduate school of Art History, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2012. A former resident of Paris, she taught art history courses at the American Embassy. She is the author of 10 art history books (an 11th is forthcoming) and 21 scholarly articles and entries. Dr. Benton regularly presents subscription seminars for the Smithsonian Associates, Washington, DC, and the 92NY, Manhattan, NY, and also presented subscription lecture series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, every season 1988-2011. She has lectured at The Cloisters, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and elsewhere in America and abroad. She holds degrees/diploma from Harvard, Brown, George Washington, and Cornell Universities.

GEORGIA O’KEEFFE (1887-1986) AND 20TH- CENTURY MODERNISM

Born in a farmhouse in Wisconsin, Georgia Totto O’Keeffe is celebrated for her paintings of flowers –although factually recorded, they are so large, seen so close up, and so sumptuously colored that they verge on abstraction. She loved the vast American Southwest region where she found solitude as well as inspiration for the colors and picturesque shapes of the rocky landscape depicted in her paintings. Visit the two adobe homes in New Mexico of an artist described as a “loner.” Join Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton for this richly illustrated PowerPoint lecture tracing O’Keeffe’s life story, examining her creative process and sources of inspiration, as well as her complicated relationship with the gallerist and photographer Alfred Stieglitz.


Tickets will be available for purchase at our first meeting on October 6.

Online registration and mail-in check payments will open following the event.