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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 ...
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 ...
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]
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Painted in oil on a 13 in × 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (33.0 cm × 24.1 cm) board, the red canna lily framed by green and dark yellow background colors at the top and right of the painting and dark blue at the bottom and left. [ 9 ]
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.
Paintings by the American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Pages in category "Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
O'Keeffe created the 39 7/8 x 35 7/8-inch (101.3 x 91.1 cm) oil painting on canvas in 1931. Around that time, American artists sought themes for the "Great American Novel" or "Great American Story". [1] It is part of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection (1952) of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1]
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 ...