Art is the most valued thing in the world…it is the expression of the highest form of human energy, the creative power nearest to the divine. The power is within - the question is how to reach it. – Arthur Wesley Dow To accompany Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer, the Addison Gallery of American Art, in Andover, Massachusetts, has organized complementary exhibitions that offer important context for a deeper exploration of O’Keeffe’s work. Arthur Wesley Dow: Nearest to the .
Both Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood eschewed pure abstraction, and by any polar model both artists must be viewed as representational rather than Modernist.