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Oct. 6—New York brought Georgia O'Keeffe fame. New Mexico brought her freedom. Among the multiple documentaries created about her, none have given the iconic artist the full biographical ...
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 ...
Hilda Belcher, The Checkered Dress, 1907, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.The painting is likely a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe. [a]Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, [15] [16] in a farmhouse in the town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
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.
The painting also appeared at the Tate Modern in 2016 in the United Kingdom. [18] Georgia O'Keeffe: Recent Paintings, New Mexico, New York, Etc. -- Etc. (1931) An Exhibition of Paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe (1953) American Business and the Arts (1961) Georgia O'Keeffe (1965) Georgia O'Keeffe An Exhibition of Oils, Watercolors and Drawings (1980)
Georgia O'Keeffe made a number of Red Canna paintings of the canna lily plant, first in watercolor, such as a red canna flower bouquet painted in 1915, but primarily abstract paintings of close-up images in oil. O'Keeffe said that she made the paintings to reflect the way she herself saw flowers, although others have called her depictions ...
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.
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]