Friday 22 July 2022

Georgia O’Keeffe - part 3

 

1918 Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz
Platinum 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 3 of 11 on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe:


1919 Green Lines and Pink
oil on canvas 45.7 x 25.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Lake George, Coat and Red
oil on canvas 69.6 x 59 cm
MoMA, New York 
© 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1919 Red and Orange Streak
oil on canvas 68.6 x 58.4 cm
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
© The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1919 Red Canna
oil on board 32.5 x 24.2 cm
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

1919 Series I - From the Plains
oil on canvas 70 x 59.7 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Series I White & Blue Flower Shapes
oil on board 50.5 x 40 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Series I- No. 10 A
oil on board 51.1 x 40.3 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Series I, No. 10
oil on canvas 51.1 x 41 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Series I, No. 7
oil on canvas 50.8 x 40.6 cm
© Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

1919 Special No.17
charcoal on paper 50.2 x 32.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1919 Special No.39
charcoal on paper 49.8 x 32.4 cm
MoMA, New York 
© 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1919-21c Blue and Green Music
oil on canvas 58.4 x 48.3 cm
© The Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1920 Abstraction, Seaweed and Water - Maine
pastel on paper 72 x 45.1 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1920 Apple Family-2
oil on canvas 20.6 x 25.7 cm
 © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1920 Series I, No. 12
oil on canvas 51.1 x 43.8 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1920 Tree with Cut Limb
oil on canvas 50.8 x 43.1 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1920-21 Alligator Pear - No. 2
oil on canvas 59 x 45.7 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1920-21 Alligator Pears
oil o canvas 58.4 x 43.1 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

c1920 Apples-No. I
oil on canvas 15.2 x 20.6 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1920c Untitled (Apple and White Dish)
oil on panel 20.6 x 15.9 cm

c1920s Sunflower
oil on board 38.1 x 31.1 cm

1921 Three Zinnias
oil on canvas 15.2 x 20.3 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1921 Abstraction of Stream
pastel on paper 70.5 x 44.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico 

1921 Abstraction. Blind I
oil on canvas 71 x 61 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museo Nacional, Madrid

1921 Alligator Pears in a Basket
charcoal on paper 70.8 x 47.9 cm
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

1921 Apple Family 3
oil on canvas 20.3 x 27.9 cm
© Milwaukee Art Museum

1921 Cedar and Red Maple, Lake George
oil on canvas 47 x 38.1 cm

1921 Untitled (Two Pears)
oil on canvas 20.3 x 25.7 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

c1921-22 Lake George Reflection
oil on canvas 147.3 x 86.4 cm

1922 Ends of Barns
oil on canvas 40.6 x 55.8 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1922 Lake George (formerly Reflection Seascape)
oil on canvas 41.2 x 55.8 cm SFMoMA
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1922 Lake George in Woods
pastel on paper laid down on paperboard 43.2 x 36.2 cm

1922 Leaves Under Water
oil on canvas 22.9 x 15.6 cm

1922 Lightning at Sea
pastel on paper mounted on paperboard 48.2 x 64.1 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1922 My Shanty, Lake George
oil on canvas 50.8 x 68.8 cm
© The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
© 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1922 Pink and Green (Pink Pastelle)
pastel on linen 40.6 x 35.5 cm

1922 Pond in the Woods
pastel on paper 60.9 x 45.7 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1922 Red Maple
oil on canvas 63.5 x 50.8 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1922 Skunk Cabbage
oil on canvas 45.7 x 35.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1922 Sun Water Maine
pastel on paper laid down on board 48.3 x 64.1 cm

1922 Wave
pastel on paper 48.3 x 63.5 cm

1922 Waves
pastel on paper laid down on board 48.3 x 63.5 cm

c1922 Waterfall
oil on canvas 66 x 66 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

before 1923 Lake George with White Birch
oil on canvas 64.7 x 54 cm

1923 Calla Lily in Tall Glass - No. 2
oil on board 81.6 x 30.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1923 Calla Lily Turned Away
pastel on paper 35.5 x 27.6 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1923 Fig
oil on board 20.6 x 14.9 cm

1923 Green Oak Leaves
oil on canvas-board 30.5 x 22.9 cm

1923 Oak Leaves
oil on panel 24.4 x 19.4 cm

1923 Pattern of Leaves
oil on canvas 56.1 x 46 cm
© The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
© 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1923 Red Canna
oil on canvas 30.4 x 25 cm
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1923 Storm Cloud, Lake George
oil on canvas 45.7 x 76.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico