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| Georgia O’Keeffe in 1950 photograph by Carl Van Eechten Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
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 air — breathing in clouds for nourishment — when the truth is that I like beef steak — and 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 myself — and 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 6 of 11 on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe:
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| 1929 Porcelain Rooster pastel on paperboard 38.1 x 20.6 cm |
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| 1929 Ranchos Church oil on canvas 61.2 x 91.7 cm © The Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
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| 1930-31 Ranchos Church, New Mexico oil on canvas 61.6 x 91.4 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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| 1930-31 Ranchos Church, New Mexico (details not found) |
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| 1929 Taos Pueblo oil on canvas 61 x 101 cm Centre Pompidou, Paris |
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| 1929 The Lawrence Tree oil on canvas 78.7 x 101.6 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| 1929 White Flower oil on canvas 76.2 x 91.5 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1929 Wooden Virgin oil on board 58.9 x 25.7 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, WI © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1929 Yellow Cactus oil on canvas 76.2 x 106.7 cm approx. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas © The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1929-30 Hill - Alcade II pencil on paper 20.6 x 29.5 cm |
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| 1929-30 Small HIlls near Alcade pencil on paper 18.1 x 25.4 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1929-30 Soft Grey, Alcalde Hill oil on canvas 25.5 x 61.2 cm Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC © 2022 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
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| 1930 Another Place Near Abiquiu oil on canvas 25.4 x 38.1 cm |
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| 1930 Bear Lake, New Mexico oil on canvas 60.9 x 22.8 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1930 Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur oil on canvas 76.5 x 101.6 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1930 Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico - Out Back of Marie's II oil on canvas 61.6 x 92.1 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1930 Church Steeple oil on canvas 76.5 x 40.9 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1930 Dark Mesa with Pink Sky oil on canvas 41.3 x 76.5 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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| 1930 New Mexican Landscape oil on canvas 41.3 x 76.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA |
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| 1930 New Mexico Landscape and Sand Hills oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1930 On the Old Santa Fe Road oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1930 Rust Red Hills oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Indiana © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum |
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| 1930 Sand Hill, Alcalde oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm (very similar to "New Mexico - Near Taos" in part 5) |
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| 1930 Untitled (Landscape) watercolour and pencil on paper 16.5 x 26 cm |
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| 1930-36 Untitled (Flowers in Vase) watercolour and graphite on paper 40 x 29.8 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| c1930-36 Untitled (Lily) pencil on paper 26.7 x 38.1 cm |
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| 1930c Black Cross with Stars and Blue oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1931 Back of Marie's No. 4 oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1931 Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue oil on canvas 101.3 x 91.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1931 Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses oil on canvas 91.4 x 61 cm © The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1931 Coxcomb oil on canvas 50.8 x 43.2 cm Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum-Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1931 Horse's Skull with Pink Rose oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA © Museum Associates/LACMA |
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| 1931 Jawbone and Fungus oil on canvas 43.1 x 50.8 cm University of Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York |
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| 1931 Near Abiquiu, New Mexico oil on canvas 40.6 x 91.4 cm |
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| 1931 Pink Roses and Larkspur pastel on board 40.6 x 30.5 cm |
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| 1932 Bleeding Heart pastel on paper-faced grey cardboard 39.4 x 25.4 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1932 East River charcoal on paper 46.6 x 60.9 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1932 Green Mountains, Canada oil on canvas 30.5 x 91 cm © The Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1932 Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 oil on canvas 121.9 x 101.6 cm |
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| 1932 Manhattan oil on canvas 214.3 x 122.4 cm Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
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| 1932 Nature Forms - Gaspé oil on canvas 25.7 x 61 cm |
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| 1932 Stables oil on canvas 30.4 x 81.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1932 White Barn, No. 1 - Canada oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1934 Banana Flower charcoal on paper 55.2 x 37.7 cm MoMA, New York © 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1934 Banana Flower No. II charcoal on paper 55.5 x 36.8 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1934 Eagle Claw and Bean Necklace charcoal on paper 48.5 x 63.9 cm MoMA, New York © 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1934 Special No. 40 graphite on wove paper 41 x 27.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA © The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1935 Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills (Ram's Head and White Hollyhock, New Mexico) oil on canvas 76.2 x 91.4 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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