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After Hibiscus appeared at the original exhibition in 1940, it disappeared into private collections. Saville traced it to the collection of Alice and Fred Rubin, noting in her catalog that it shared qualities with O'Keeffe's work depicting flowers at close range in the 1920s, but was unable to borrow it for the 1990 exhibition. [ 56 ]
A Green Drawing Room, Hon. Mrs Guy Bethel's House, Colour and Interior Decoration, Country Life, 1926 Lieutenant-Colonel (later Colonel) Henry Cleland Dunlop, Royal Artillery, 1900 Hibiscus Flower, 1922
Black Iris, formerly called Black Iris III, [1] [2] is a 1926 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe. [3] Art historian Linda Nochlin interpreted Black Iris as a morphological metaphor for female genitalia.
Barrington is an artist who uses a variety of media in his paintings including wood and textiles. His work often includes Caribbean motifs, such as hibiscus and yams,and is known to rely on influences spanning art history and contemporary influences such as the prevalence of hip hop music in his youth.
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.
Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis is considered to have a number of medical uses in Chinese herbology. [23] Traditional uses in China have been to make a black shoe-polish from its flower petals, or to make a woman's black hair dye. [24] The flowers are also used in parts of China to color various intoxicating liquors. [24]
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Newton sold his landscapes from the trunk of his car because art galleries in South Florida refused to represent African Americans. [8] The following year, 14-year-old Alfred Hair began taking formal art lessons from Backus and, after three years, also began selling landscape paintings. Newton and Hair inspired a loose-knit group of African ...