London's Tate Modern calling for Valparaiso University's Georgia O'Keefe painting

Gregg Hertzlieb, director and curator of Brauer Museum of Art, will accompany the painting to London on June 27 where he'll supervise its transportation, unpacking and installation. 

"Certain paintings you want to specify having a courier because they're really valuable and you want to make sure nothing happens to them," Hertzlieb said. 

This isn't the first time Hertzlieb as couriered a painting overseas. He's taken a painting to Japan and a few years ago transported the same O'Keeffe painting to an exhibition in Dublin, Ireland. He'll be in London through July 1.

"It's fun," Hertzlieb said. 

O'Keeffe made her debut in 1916 and is known as a pioneer of twentieth century art. 

"She is very famous artist to the point of almost being like a folk hero," Hertzlieb said. "She is one of the first women artists to attract wide-spread fame and recognition. In the beginnings of modern art she played a very important role to kind of develop what art could become in the modern era." 

The London exhibition runs through Oct. 30. 

The exhibition runs from July 6 - Oct. 30.Then it goes to the Bank Austria Kunstforum in Vienna, Austria, where the show runs from Nov. 30 to March 12. The exhibition concludes at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, where the exhibition runs from April 1 to June 25. Lenders to this exhibition include many major U.S. museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago.