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Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. 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]
While at Chatham, sometime between 1903 and 1905, she made a watercolor painting of a vase of red flowers with green leaves as a study. [11] The watercolor paintings that she liked the most from that period include one of ears of yellow and red corn, which the school kept as an example of a student's best work, and another of a bunch of lilacs.
Chinese Girl (often popularly known as The Green Lady) is a 1952 painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff. Mass-produced prints of the work in subsequent years were among the best-selling of the twentieth century. [ 1 ]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 February 2025. American modernist artist (1887–1986) For the 2009 film, see Georgia O'Keeffe (film). Georgia O'Keeffe O'Keeffe in 1932, photograph by Alfred Stieglitz Born Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (1887-11-15) November 15, 1887 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, U.S. Died March 6, 1986 (1986-03-06) (aged 98 ...
Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Третчиков, 26 December [O.S. 13 December] 1913, Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire, now Petropavl in Kazakhstan [1] – 26 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa) was an artist whose painting Chinese Girl, popularly known as The Green Lady, is one of the best-selling art prints of the twentieth century.
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She painted an extreme close-up of the canna lily entitled Inside the Red Canna in 1919. [11] It is a depiction of the large petals of the exterior of the flower, with focus on the interior through the use of contrasting shades of colors. The painting was made with red, orange, brown, and pink paint. [12]