Wednesday 20 July 2022

Georgia O’Keeffe - part 2

1918 Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
Palladium 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 2 of 11 on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe:


1916 Sunrise
watercolour (details not found)
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

1916 Train at Night in the Desert
watercolour and pencil on paper 30.3 x 22.5 cm
MoMA, New York
© 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1916 Untitled (Abstraction) Red and Black / Headache
watercolour on light tan wove paper 30 x 22.4 cm (sheet)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1916 Untitled (Houses and Landscape)
watercolour on paper 22.5 x 30.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1916 Untitled (Windmill)
watercolour and graphite on paper 12.1 x 9.2 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1916-17 No. 20-Special
oil on board 44.1 x 34.2 cm
© Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

1916-17 Special No.22
oil on board 33.3 x 43.8 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1916-17 Untitled (Still-Life)
pen and black ink on paper 8.9 x 6.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1916-18 The Park at Night
watercolour on paper 45.7 x 30.5 cm

1916c Blue #4
watercolour on paper 40.5 x 27.8 cm
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1917 Canyon with Crows
watercolour and graphite on paper22.5 x 30.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Chicken in Sunrise
watercolour on paper 20.8 x 30.3 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1917 Church Bell, Ward, Colorado
oil on board 44.1 x 35.2 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Evening Star No. III
watercolour on paper mounted on board 22.7 x 30.4 cm
MoMA, New York 
© 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1917 Evening star No. IV
watercolour on paper 22.5 x 30.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Evening star No. VI
watercolour on paper 22.5 x 30.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Evening Star No. VII
watercolour on paper 22.5 x 30.1 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Light Coming on the Plains is the name of three watercolours made in 1917. They were made when O'Keeffe was teaching a West Texas State Normal College in Canyon, Texas. They reflect the evolution of her work towards pure abstraction, and an early American modernist landscape. It was unique for its time. Compared to Sunrise that she painted one year earlier, it was simpler and more abstract.


1917 Light Coming on the Plains No. I
watercolour on newsprint paper 30.1 x 22.5 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth Texas
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York


1917 Light Coming on the Plains No. II
watercolour on newsprint paper 30.4 x 22.2 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth Texas
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1917 Light Coming on the Plains No. III
watercolour on newsprint paper 30.1 x 22.5 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth Texas
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1917 Nude Series II
watercolour on paper 27.9 x 22.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Nude Series
watercolour on paper 30.4 x 22.7 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Nude Series VIII
watercolour on paper 45.7 x 34.3 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Pink and Green Mountains No. III
watercolour on paper 22.5 x 30.1 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
©2010 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1917 Portrait - W - No. III
watercolour on paper 30.4 x 22.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Red Mesa
watercolour and graphite on paper 22.2 x 30.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Untitled (Abstraction-Portrait of Paul Strand)
watercolour on paper 30.5 x 22.5 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum-Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

1917 Untitled (Abstraction/Portrait of Paul Strand)
watercolour on paper 29.8 x 22.2 cm

1917 Untitled (Abstraction/Portrait of Paul Strand)
watercolour on paper 29.8 x 22.2 cm

1917 Untitled (Abstraction/Portrait of Paul Strand)
watercolour on paper 30.5 x 22.5 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

1917 Untitled (Landscape), Adrienne Brugger Sketchbook
watercolour on paper 28.8 x 19.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1917 Untitled (Landscape), Adrienne Brugger Sketchbook
watercolour on paper 19.4 x 28.8 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1918 Blue Flower
pastel on paper mounted on cardboard 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York

1918 Blue Nude (Leah)
watercolour on paper  30.1 x 22.2 cm
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

1918 Figure in Black
 watercolour and graphite on paper 22.5 x 15.2 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1918 Figures under Rooftop
watercolour on paper 30.3 x 22.7 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1918 House with Tree - Green
watercolour and graphite on paper 48.3 x 33.3 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1918 Music - Pink and Blue No.I
oil on canvas 88.9 x 73.7 cm
Seattle Art Museum, Washington State

1918 Music, Pink and Blue No. 2
oil on canvas 88.9 x 76 cm
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum-Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York


1918 Series I - No.I
oil on composition board 50.8 x 40.6 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth Texas
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1918 Series I - No.3
oil on board 50.8 x 40.6 cm
© Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

1918 Series I - No. 2
oil on board 50.8 x 43.1 cm
© Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

1918 The Flag
watercolour on paper 30.3 x 22.3 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1918 Three women
watercolour and graphite on paper 22.5 x 15.2 cm
 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1918 Tree and Picket Fence
watercolour on paper 45.4 x 30.1 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1918 Untitled (Bowl of Fruit)
watercolour and graphite on paper 124.5 x 76.2 cm
 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1918 Woman with Apron
watercolour and graphite on paper 22.2 x 15.2 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Black Diagonal
charcoal on paper 62.6 x 47.6 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Blue Line
oil on canvas 51.3 x 43.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Blue Shapes
watercolour on paper 30.4 x 22.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Cannas
oil on linen stretched over board 41.9 x 26 cm

1919 Drawing No. 18
charcoal on paper 48.2 x 63.5 cm
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth Texas
© 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York





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