"Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities" in this first exhibition to bring together an important selection of these artists' paintings and photographs. The works date from the 1920s forward, and most significantly, they reveal the artists' ongoing deep attraction to and profound appreciation of the natural world. They take as their subjects the myriad of sizes, shapes, and texures of elements O'Keeffe and Adams found in their environments, from tiny flowers to the awesome vastness of wilderness areas.

Anne Hammond, Honorary Scholar at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum's Research Center in 2001 and a specialist on Adams, selected the works included in this exhibition. Its catalogue was published by little, Brown, and Co., and includes essays by journalist Richard b. Woodard, O'Keeffe Museum Curator, Barbara Buhler lynes, and Sandra Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.