Presented by Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

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Through the Long Desert: Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright Book and Lecture Registration
$65 (plus sales tax) for one Book and one Free Lecture Attendance

Book orders must be received by March 23 to guarantee delivery before the April 12 lecture. Book proceeds support Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Additional book details are noted below.

Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright were neither competitors nor direct collaborators. Yet these romantic heroes of twentieth-century art and architecture largely operated in parallel. Based on her seminal new book, Through the Long Desert: Georgia O’Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright, Sarah Rovang’s lecture will weave together their life stories, examining newly discovered links between them and, in the process, offering a fresh perspective on their work, their intermittent yet poignant friendship, and their closeness to the desert. 

Rovang's lecture at Cranbrook will also consider O'Keeffe's broader intellectual and creative engagement with architects and designers following Wright's death in 1959, including several notable Cranbrook artists such as Charles and Ray Eames. These interdisciplinary friendships played a remarkable role in shaping both O'Keeffe's domestic environments in New Mexico and her evolving understanding of the relationship between art and architecture during her late career.