O'Keeffe museum to honor Annie Leibovitz

AP News | 2009-10-02 21:51:06

<div id="subtitle">Georgia O'Keeffe Museum to honor Annie Leibovitz with 2010 Women of Distinction award</div><div><p>The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will honor photographer Annie Leibovitz as the 2010 recipient in its Women of Distinction series.</p><p>Leibovitz will be recognized March 6 at Santa Fe's Lensic Performing Arts Center.</p><p>The Women of Distinction award was started in 2007. Previous honorees include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, journalist Gail Sheehy and feminist author Gloria Steinem.</p><p>Museum officials said Leibovitz's 40 years as a photojournalist have produced memorable and provocative works that include some of the best-known portraits of our time.</p><p>The Santa Fe museum has the largest single collection of O'Keeffe's paintings, drawings and sculptures. The artist, who died in 1986, spent nearly four decades in northern New Mexico.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=60302111&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>


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