(Born: November 15, 1887—Died:March 6, 1986) Georgia O’Keeffe (Born: November 15, 1887—Died:March 6, 1986)
Georgia O'Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950. She was an American artist. She is associated with the American Southwest, particularly New Mexico O'Keeffe has been a major figure in American art since the 1920s. She is chiefly known for paintings of flowers, rocks, shells, animal bones and landscapes. Her paintings present crisply contoured forms Values of Colors were smooth & Subtle She often transformed her subject matter into powerful abstract images.
Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small Nobody sees a flower, really, it is so small. We haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I'll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers. ...Well, I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't. - Georgia O'Keeffe
Apple Blossoms
Poppy 1927
Calla Lilies with Red Anemone
Pelvis With Distance 1943 She said, “I was most interested in the holes in the bones—what I saw through them — particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky.”
1917 Pink and Green Mountain #1
Red Snap Dragons 1923
Shell #1- 1928
Oriental Poppies 1928
Jack-in-Pulpit - No. 2, 1930
Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930
Jack-in-Pulpit Abstraction – No. 5, 1930
Red Canna
Petunias