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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 ...
In 1930, Georgia O'Keeffe created 54 works, some of which were created in Maine and New York, though the majority were completed in New Mexico. [4] In April of that year, she continued her exploration of natural forms in Maine, expanding on her ongoing shell series first initiated in the 1920s (Shell and Old Shingle I, Shell and Old Shingle VII, 1926; Shell No. 2, 1928) and continuing ...
So maintains Paul Wagner, co-producer of "Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light." The film is set to debut at the Santa Fe International Film Festival on Saturday, Oct. 19, and Sunday, Oct. 20 ...
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 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. [ 3 ] Now a state park, it is the second largest canyon in the United States and is called the "Grand Canyon of Texas".
Georgia O'Keeffe, Red Canna, 1919, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. 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]
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.
It depicts a cow skull centered in front of what appears to be a cloth background. In the center of the background is a vertical black stripe, surrounded by two vertical stripes of white laced with blue. Outside are two vertical red stripes. O'Keeffe created the 39 7/8 x 35 7/8-inch (101.3 x 91.1 cm) oil painting on canvas in 1931.