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Thirty-seven years after her death, Georgia O’Keeffe remains best known for her signature paintings of flowers and bleached skulls. In 2014, one of her flower paintings sold at auction for $44 ...
In 1939, Georgia O’Keeffe flew to Hawaii to paint pictures … for a pineapple-juice ad. Then 51 and famed for her flower paintings, she was offered an all-expenses-paid trip to paradise by Dol… ...
Georgia O’Keeffe’s First Flowers. During her years as a Texas schoolteacher, the artist discovered abstraction. Then Alfred Stieglitz discovered her. By Robert M. Coates. June 29, 1929 ...
Imagine Georgia O'Keeffe needing "luck" to paint a flower. But there it is, in the artist's twirling calligraphy, in a letter to her friend, documentary filmmaker Henwar Rodakiewicz. Maybe I've ...
Though Georgia O’Keeffe is most famous for her lovingly rendered close-ups of flowers—like Black Iris (1926) and Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3 (1930)—these make up just about 200 of her 2000-plus ...
Now MoMA wants to establish O’Keeffe’s modernist bona fides by defining her penchant for repeating images — landscapes, flowers, West Texas canyons, portraits, female nudes, evening stars ...
O'Keeffe's love of shape and color drove her like an addiction. As a young woman, teaching art on the Texas plains, she got up before daybreak to try to memorize the color of the dawn sky over the ...
A photo of the artist's entryway displays her personality & penchant for the New Mexican desert – it sets the precedent for more unique design ...
Georgia O’Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at Sotheby’s American art sale this past November. Courtesy the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe.
She was thinking along these same lines and placed her eye right into the flower." In the summer of 1929, O'Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico.
Though Georgia O’Keeffe is most famous for her lovingly rendered close-ups of flowers—like Black Iris (1926) and Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3 (1930)—these make up just about 200 of her 2000-plus ...