In Montreal, Two Modernist Giants, Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, Are Put in Unlikely Conversation

Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore, the great naturalists of modernism, both died in 1986, an ocean apart. They were apart nearly every moment of their lives, too. The Wisconsin-born O’Keeffe graduated from art school and moved to New York, where a career whirlwind awaited; Moore, a Brit and eleven years her junior, had his studies interrupted by a draft into the first World War. O’Keeffe eventually left the city for the desert; Moore made his studio in the dewy English countrysi