Georgia O’Keeffe – part 7

Georgia O’Keeffe – part 7

 

Georgia O’Keefe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona
photograph by Ansel Adams
gelatin silver print

One of the pioneers of American modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was a member of Alfred Stieglitz’s circle of progressive artists who made it their mission to create a new and distinctly American art. She was one of the few women in the group and, to her frustration, contemporary critics often highlighted the ability of her work to express  “femaleness.” In 1922 she complained that critics  “make me seem like some strange unearthly sort of creature floating in the airbreathing in clouds for nourishmentwhen the truth is that I like beef steakand like it rare at that.” 

Born in Wisconsin, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and later at the Art Students League in New York. She married photographer Alfred Stieglitz in 1924, and during a long career created images of cityscapes, abstractions, landscapes, and her celebrated flower paintings. She taught for four years in Texas, where the wide-open spaces profoundly affected her art. In 1929 she started spending months at a time in New Mexico, telling friends in New York that  “I never feel at home in the East the way I do out here … I feel like myselfand I like it.” After Stieglitz died, O’Keeffe settled in New Mexico and created haunting images of sun-bleached bones, clouds, and mesas. She was a true  “Santa Fe character,” dressed severely in black or white, with her long dark hair pulled tightly back.

This is part 7 of 11 on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe:


1935 Rib and Jawbone
oil on canvas 22.9 x 61 cm
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1935 Sunflower, New Mexico, I
oil on canvas 50.8 x 40.6 cm
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
 © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1935 Turkey Feather with Horseshoe II
oil on canvas 31 x 40.6 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1935 Turkey Feathers in Indian Pot
oil on canvas 60.9 x 21.5 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1935 Untitled (Blue-Headed Indian Doll)
oil on board 12.4 x 7.3 cm

1935 Untitled (Kachina Doll)
watercolour and pencil on paper 27.9 x 20.3 cm

1936 Black Iris
oil on canvas 49.6 x 41.9 cm

1936 Deer’s Skull with Pedernal
oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1936 Grey Wash Forms
oil on canvas mounted on Masonite 40.6 x 76.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1936 Horizontal Horse’s or Mule’s Skull with Feather
oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm
© Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

1936 Jimson Weed
oil on linen 177.8 x 212 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1936 Jonquils I
oil on canvas 40.6 x 55.9 cm

1936 Mule’s Skull with Pink Poinsettias
oil on canvas 101.9 x 76.2 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1936 Pink Spotted Lillys
oil on canvas 50.8 x 40.6 cm

1936 Pink Spotted Lily
oil on canvas 30.5 x 25.4 cm

1936 Portrait of Dorothy Schubart
charcoal on paper 56 x 46.2 cm
MoMA, New York 
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1936 Summer Days
oil on canvas 91.8 x 76.5 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

1936 Red Hills with the Pedernal
pastel on paper mounted to wood-pulp board 54.6 x 69.2 cm
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1936 Summer Days
oil on canvas 91.8 x 76.5 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

1936 Untitled (Grey Wash Forms)
pencil on paper 15.2 x 22.9 cm

1936 Yellow Jonquils #3
oil on canvas 76.8 x 102.2 cm
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansa City, MO
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1936 Ghost Ranch Landscape
oil on canvas 30.3 x 76.2 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

c1936 Mule Skull with Turkey Feather
graphite on ivory wove paper 54.3 x 39.1 cm
© 2018 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

c1936 Untitled (Ghost Ranch Landscape)
watercolour on paper 39.4 x 58.4 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1937 A Sunflower from Maggie
oil on canvas 40.6 x 50.8 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

before 1937 Shell
oil on canvas 24.1 x 33 cm

1937 Gerald’s Tree I
oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.5 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1937 Hollyhock Pink with Pedernal
oil on canvas 54.2 x 79.6 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1937 Horn and Feather
oil on canvas  22.9 x 35.6 cm

1937 Horn and Feathers
oil on canvas 50.9 x 61.4 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1937 Red Amaryllis
oil on canvas 30.5 x 25.7 cm
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL

1937 Red Hills and White Flower
pastel on paper 49.2 x 65.1 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1937 Red Hills with Flowers
oil on canvas 50.8 x 63.5 cm
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
1937 Two Pink Shells-Pink Shell
oil on canvas 30.4 x 25.4 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1938 Dark Rocks
oil on canvas 40.3 x 50.2 cm
© 2022 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1938 Deer Horns
oil on canvas 91.4 x 40.6 cm

1938 Geranium Leaves in Pink Dish
oil on wood panel 21.6 x 19 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1938 Kachina
oil on canvas 17.7 x 17.7 cm
SFMoMA
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1938 Ram’s Head, Blue Morning Glory
oil on canvas 50.8 x 76.2 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1938 Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth
oil on canvas 53.3 x 33 cm
© The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1938 Red Hill and White Shell
oil on canvas 76.2 x 92.7 cm
© 2022 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1938 The Cliff Chimneys
oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm
© Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

1938 White Shell with Red
pastel on wood pulp laminate board 54.6 x 69.8 cm
© The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

c1938 Pinion and Cedar Trees
pencil on paper 26 x 20 cm

1939 A White Camellia
pastel on board 54.6 x 69.8 cm

1939 Bella Donna
oil and canvas 92.1 x 76.5 cm
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1939 Crab’s Claw Ginger / Hawaii
oil on canvas 48.3 x 40.6 cm

1939 Fishhook From Hawaii – No. I
oil on canvas 45.7 x 35.6 cm
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1939 Fishhook From Hawaii, No. 2
 oil on canvas 91.1 x 60.6 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1939 Heliconia, Hawaii
oil on canvas 48.2 x 40.6 cm

1939 Hibiscus
oil on canvas 48.3 x 41 cm

1939 Hibiscus with Plumeria
oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC


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