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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]
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...
Hucha and black horse: dimensions unknown Unknown 1928 Portrait of Alejandro Gómez Arias: Retrato de Alejandro Gómez Arias: Oil on wood, 61.5 x 41 cm Private collection, Mexico 1928 Portrait of Cristina, My Sister: Retrato de Cristina, Mi Hermana: Oil on wood, 99 x 81.5 cm Private collection, Mexico City, Mexico 1928 Sitting Girl with Duck
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American painter John Singer Sargent in 1885–86. [1]The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting paper lanterns as day turns to evening; they are in a garden strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies (possibly the Japanese mountain lily, Lilium auratum) behind them.
The original painting was sold through Thomas Agnew & Sons in London, and acquired by Charles Yerkes in 1901. After his death in 1910, it was sold at the American Art Association , and then bought in 1912 from the dealer Henry Reinhardt Galleries in Chicago by Thomas F. Cole .
Inghram painted Flower Girl in 1846. Though the original commissioner of the painting is not known, sources speculate it was painted for Jonathan Sturges, who owned the painting when it was first displayed in 1847. [1] The model who sat for Inghram is not known, though one source speculates it was a Marie Perkins of New Orleans. [2]
She also declared it her personal favorite painting, [2] saying "At this moment The Song of the Lark had come to represent the popular American artistic taste on a national level." [ 3 ] Willa Cather 's 1915 novel The Song of the Lark takes its name from the painting, which is also used as the novel's cover art.
Pages in category "Flower paintings" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Almond Blossoms; B.