Blame it on a tarantula: Damaged O’Keeffe painting back on display following $145,000 restoration

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Blame it on a tarantula: Damaged O’Keeffe painting back on display following $145,000 restoration
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The late American modernist artist painted the piece, titled “Spring,” in 1948. It was last seen by the public in 2019.

SANTA FE, N.M. — A damaged Georgia O’Keeffe painting is back on display after conservators spent 1,250 hours and $145,000 restoring it.the most massive restoration project he has ever worked oThe results will be on display at the museum through Oct. 10. The painting will then travel to the San Diego Museum of Art in 2023.

The water damage likely was caused by a tarantula tunneling through the roof at the artist’s 18th century adobe home in Abiquiú, in northern New Mexico. “The damage is consistent with it being stacked against another painting,” Kronkright said. “It’s clear at some point that it was sanded. It was almost as if the paint had been pulled off.”

“The primrose is associated with mourning; the bones are connected to death. It’s interpreted as kind of a memorial to Alfred Stieglitz,” Plotek said.

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