Georgia O'Keefe's Passion for Native American Spirituality at Montclair Museum of Art

THE STAR LEDGER
By Dan Bischoff/For The Star-Ledger

Georgia O'Keeffe's "Paul’s Kachina, " 1931, oil on board.

NEW JERSEY---Native American arts and religion could be our versions of African masks and New Guinea totems, and a whole raft of white artists took up the cause in the ’30s — and there’s no better place to host a traveling exhibition, organized by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Denver Art Museum (both of which, along with the Heard Museum of Native American art in Phoenix, will take it next year), than the Montclair Art Museum. “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land” includes some 30 paintings and a few “katsinam,” or Kachina dolls, the little painted wooden spirit figures made by Hopi and Zuni tribes. [link]

Montclair Art Museum: "Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land", 3 South Mountain Ave., Montclair; (Ends  Jan. 20, 2013), For information, call (973) 746-5555 or visit montclair-art.com.