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National Medal of Arts (1985) Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) Edward MacDowell Medal (1972) 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.
20 paintings, 17+ photographs. American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) created a series of 20 paintings and 17 photographs based on her more than nine-week visit to four of the Hawaiian Islands in the Territory of Hawaii in the summer of 1939. Her trip was part of an all-expenses paid commercial art commission from the Philadelphia ...
O'Keeffe mastered painting with the watercolors, using hand-ground pigments. [5] She experimented with design, like using trees and shrubs to frame a painting. [ 5 ] One of the exercises from Dow's book, Composition , is to create "a landscape, reduced to its main lines, all detail being omitted", like the way O'Keeffe excluded doors from some ...
October 6, 2024 at 3:01 PM. Oct. 6—New York brought Georgia O'Keeffe fame. New Mexico brought her freedom. Among the multiple documentaries created about her, none have given the iconic artist ...
Georgia O'Keeffe, Untitled, vase of flowers, watercolor on paper, 17 3/4 x 11 1/2 in. (45.1 x 29.2 cm), between 1903 and 1905. She joined her family in Virginia in 1903 and completed high school as a boarder at Chatham Episcopal Institute in Virginia (now Chatham Hall) and graduated in 1905. [4][9] Elizabeth May Willis, who studied at Art ...
Georgia O'Keeffe – Hands (1919) by Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe – Hands, also known as Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands), is a black and white photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1919. It is part of a large group of more than 300 photographs that he took of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, from 1917 prior to their 1924 marriage, through 1937. [1]
Georgia O'Keeffe, Drawing XIII, 1915, charcoal on paper, 24 3/8 x 18 1/2 in. (61.9 x 47 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art. Drawing XIII is an example of how O'Keeffe began to develop her own sense of design and composition. A rising flame or flowing river are suggested by the curved line on the right side of the drawing.
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.