Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer Audio Exhibition
Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887–1986), Bo II (Bo-Bo), 1961, gelatin silver print, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2006.6.1350
14 3/4 × 11 3/4 × 1 3/8 in. (37.5 × 29.8 × 3.5 cm)
Verbal Description
Hello, my name is Nathaniel Stein, the museum’s curator of photography and curator overseeing the Cincinnati presentation of this exhibition. I will be reading the verbal description of Bo II (Bo-Bo) in Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer.
Bo II (Bo-Bo), from 1961, is a gelatin silver print. It was created by Georgia O’Keeffe, an American artist who lived from 1887 to 1986. It is in the collection of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. The acquisition number is 2006.6.1350
Bo II (Bo-Bo) measures 14 and three-quarter inches by 11 and three-quarter inches. It is a portrait-oriented black-and-white photo. In the picture, a fluffy black chow, a dog breed, lays on a sun-bleached wood stump. A same sized stump sits on a stone step to the left, a white bowl in front of it. A pile of rocks lay in a pile on the ground to the dog’s right. Behind Bo-Bo is a light-colored adobe wall with a recessed door on the left, only part of which is visible. The shadow of a ladder stretches across the entirety of the wall surface behind the dog. The lower part of the shadow appears to touch the dog’s back.
Label Text
Hello, my name is Nathaniel Stein, the museum’s curator of photography and curator overseeing the Cincinnati presentation of this exhibition. I will be reading the label for Bo II (Bo-Bo) in Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer.
Bo II (Bo-Bo), from 1961, is a gelatin silver print. It was created by Georgia O’Keeffe, an American artist who lived from 1887 to 1986. It is in the collection of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe. The acquisition number is 2006.6.1350
In this photograph, O’Keeffe’s chow Bo II (also known as Bo-Bo) curls up on sun-bleached tree trunks outside the artist’s studio door. The dog’s body is a dark, weighty form juxtaposed against the light cylindrical forms of the tree trunks. At the same time, the shadow of a ladder suggests the dog’s form could read as a shadow—a negative space without depth or weight.