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O'Keeffe was initially attracted to flowers due to their intricate forms and colors. She experimented with forms and approaches before settling on a close-up approach in depicting them, which brought out the delicate details and forms of each flower. Georgia O'Keeffe. Calla Lilies, 1924. Oil on canvas. Private collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

A talented painter, Georgia O’Keeffe has been commonly confused to have based her many close-up flower works on the female genitalia. This is not the case however. O’Keeffe expressed th…

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Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico). Date: 1926. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 36 x 29 7/8...

In 1923, Georgia O’Keeffe visited York Beach, Maine. Meanwhile, more than two hundred miles away, Alfred Stieglitz was back at his summer home in Lake...

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico - which she made her permanent home in 1949 - O’Keeffe depicted…

Flower Abstraction is among the earliest of Georgia O’Keeffe’s large-scale flower paintings, which she continued to produce through the 1950s. In these paintings, O’Keeffe harnessed the technique of close cropping that she had learned from modernist photography, especially the work of Paul Strand, with her own pictorial vocabulary of undulating forms and soft gradations of tone. In this way, she transformed her botanical subjects into compositions that oscillate between abstraction and…

The early American Modernists may be usefully understood as the generation of artists born primarily between 1875 and 1890 who promulgated the new languages of modern art—fauvism, cubism, futurism, orphism, synchromism, expressionism, Dada—both in the United States and abroad.