To create one's own world, Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 American Painter To create one's own world, in any of the arts, takes courage. Georgia O'Keeffe
Photo of Georgia O’Keeffe with Horse’s Skull 1948, photo by Philippe Halsman O is for O’Keefe An artist devine Her paintings are perfect, Drawings are fine. -Poem by O’Keefe’s fellow students, posted in the Chatham Episcopal Institute yearbook
Light Coming on the Plains II 1917, watercolor, 12” x 9”, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas
Blue and Green Music 1919, oil on canvas, 23” x 19”, The Art Institute of Chicago
Large Dark Red Leaves on White 1925, oil on canvas, 32” x 21”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.
Red Poppy 1927, oil on canvas, 7-1/8” x 9”, Private collection “I’ll paint what I see, what the flower is to me but I’ll make it big…. I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers”
Purple Petunia 1927, oil on canvas, 36” x 30”, Private collection “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way – things I had no words for”
Jack in the Pulpit IV 1930, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Corn Dark I 1924, oil on composition board, 31-3/4” x 11-7/8”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
City Night 1926, oil on canvas, 48” x 30”, location unknown
The Lawrence Tree 1929, oil on canvas, 31-1/16” x 39-3/16”, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Ranchos Church I 1929, oil on canvas, 18-1/2” x 24”, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses 1931, oil on canvas, 35-3/4” x 24”, The Art Institute of Chicago “I think…that I am one of the few who gives our country any voice of its own.”
Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock—Hills 1935, oil on canvas, 30” x 32-1/4”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
the wideness and wonder of the world I live in. White Shell with Red 1938, pastel on paper, 21” x 27”, Art Institute of Chicago “I have picked up sea shells and rocks and pieces of wood…I have used these things to say what is me, the wideness and wonder of the world I live in.
Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall 1943, oil on canvas, 30” x 16”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio