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Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
Light Coming on the Plains is the name of three watercolor paintings made by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1917. They were made when O'Keeffe was teaching at West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. [1] They reflect the evolution of her work towards pure abstraction, and an early American modernist landscape. They were unique for their time.
Carolyn Kastner, curator of "Georgia O'Keeffe’s Far Wide Texas", states that "she was at the peak of her commitment to abstraction" at that time. [ 2 ] Georgia O'Keeffe and friends at the Palo Duro Club, at the head of Palo Duro Canyon , perhaps between 1912 and 1913, when she first went to Texas, or between 1916 and 1918.
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe was born on a farm near Sun Prairie in Wisconsin's Dane County on Nov. 15, 1887. She was the second oldest child and oldest daughter of Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida ...
O'Keeffe died in Santa Fe in 1986 at the age of 98. Her life "opens a door on women in America and art in America," Wagner said. "Her life spans almost the entire century.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Drawing No. 2 - Special, charcoal on Fabriano laid paper, 60 x 46.3 cm (23 5/8 x 18 1/4 in.), 1915, National Gallery of Art Charcoal drawings by Georgia O'Keeffe from 1915 represents Georgia O'Keeffe's first major exploration of abstract art and attainment of a freedom to explore her artistic talents based upon what she felt and envisioned. [1]
The "Abstracting Georgia O'Keeffe" show will feature hundreds of flowers, including spring bulbs, poppies and hydrangeas. The show will be in the flower show dome Saturday, March 30 through Monday ...
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.