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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.
By the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe began making large-scale paintings of natural forms at close range, as if seen through a magnifying lens. [5] O'Keeffe learned modernist photography techniques, like close-cropping, from Paul Strand and others. [2] Strand was particularly influential in her development of cropped, close-up images.
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.
O'Keeffe's series of 14 Hawaii photographs (plus two photos of O'Keeffe by Harold Stein) were exhibited by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in collaboration with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, in the 2021 touring exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe, Photographer.
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]
See inside of Georgia O'Keeffe's home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, circa 1963. It was featured in House Beautiful's April issue that year.
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 ...
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 ...
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