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The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 paintings that she made over her career. [3] One of her paintings, Jimson Weed, sold for $44.4 million, making it the ...
The Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio in Abiquiú was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1998, and is now owned by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [73] A fossilized species of archosaur was named Effigia okeeffeae ("O'Keeffe's Ghost") in January 2006, "in honor of Georgia O'Keeffe for her numerous paintings of the badlands at Ghost Ranch ...
Pages in category "Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Sky Above Clouds (1960–1977) is a series of eleven cloudscape paintings by the American modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe, produced during her late period.The series of paintings is inspired by O'Keeffe's views from her airplane window during her frequent air travel in the 1950s and early 1960s when she flew around the world.
A recent study by online art gallery Singulart found that Wisconsin native Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is the most displayed female artist across American museum art collections.
In 1930, Georgia O'Keeffe created 54 works, some of which were created in Maine and New York, though the majority were completed in New Mexico. [4] In April of that year, she continued her exploration of natural forms in Maine, expanding on her ongoing shell series first initiated in the 1920s (Shell and Old Shingle I, Shell and Old Shingle VII, 1926; Shell No. 2, 1928) and continuing ...
Dale Kronkright, head of conservation at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, called the job the most massive restoration project he has ever worked on. The painting combines such O’Keeffe ...
An older, but similar work by O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), focusing on only a single flower, was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton in 2014 for $44,405,000, more than tripling the previous world record auction for a piece by a female artist. [5]