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| 1968 Georgia O'Keeffe by Arnold Newman gelatin silver print © Arnold Newman Properties/Getty Images |
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 9 of 11 on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe:
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| 1944 Pelvis I oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, WI © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1944 Pelvis II oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1944 Pelvis III oil on canvas (details not found) |
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| 1944 Pelvis IV oil on Masonite 91.5 x 102.5 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1945 Abiquiu Sand Hills and Mesa oil on canvas 40.6 x 91.4 cm © 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1945 Abstraction cast bronze 91.4 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm |
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| 1945 Abstraction charcoal on paper 60.9 x 21.6 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1945 Black Place I oil on canvas 75.2 x 90.6 cm Minneapolis Institute of Art, MI © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1945 Black Place II oil on canvas 61 x 76.2 cm Vilcek Foundation, New York |
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| 1945 Black Place III pastel on paper 70.5 x 111.1 cm Private Collection © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1945 Dead Tree with Pink Hill oil on canvas 76.2 x 101.6 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1945 Goat's Horn with Red pastel on paperboard, mounted on paperboard 70.7 x 80.4 cm Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC © 2022 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden |
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| 1945 Goat's Horns with Blue pastel on paper laid down on board 71.1 x 90.2 cm |
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| 1945 Hills and Mesa to the West oil on canvas 48.3 x 91.4 cm |
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| 1945 My Back Yard oil on canvas 25.4 x 20.3 cm |
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| 1945 Pedernal pastel on paper 54.6 x 109.8 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1946 Bare Tree Trunks with Snow oil on canvas 74.9 x 100.3 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas © The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1946 Dark Tree Trunks oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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| 1946 In the Patio No. I oil on paper laid down on board 75.5 x 60.3 cm |
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| 1946 Part of the Cliff oil on canvas 91.7 x 50.9 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| c1946 Untitled (Patio Door) graphite on paper 43 x 35.5 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| c1946 Untitled (Patio Door) pencil on paper 43.1 x 35.6 cm |
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| 1948 Cottonwood and Pedernal oil on canvas 25.4 x 30.4 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1948 In the Patio III oil on canvas 45.7 x 76.2 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1948 In the Patio No. IV oil on canvas 35.5 x 76.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1948 Spring oil on canvas 122.5 x 214 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| c1949 Brooklyn Bridge pencil on paper 25.7 x 19.7 cm |
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| 1949 Brooklyn Bridge charcoal and chalk on paper 101.3 x 74.9 cm |
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| 1949 Brooklyn Bridge oil on Masonite 121.8 x 91.1 cm Brooklyn Museum, New York |
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| 1950 Early Spring Trees Above Irrigation Ditch, Abiquiu oil on canvas 76.2 x 66 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1950 In the Patio VIII oil on canvas 66 x 50.8 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1950 In the Patio IX oil on canvas mounted on panel 76.2 x 101.6 cm Vilcek Foundation, New York |
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| 1950 Poppies oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, WI © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1950 Winter Trees, Abiquiu I oil on canvas 60.9 x 50.8 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| c1950 Untitled (Poppy) pencil on paper 34.9 x 25.1 cm |
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| 1951 Trees Abiquiu IV oil on canvas 35.4 x 30.5 cm |
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| 1952 Cottonwoods oil on canvas 76.2 x 91.4 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1952 Ghost Ranch Cliff oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1952 Lavender Hill with Green oil on canvas 30.4 x 69 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1952 Mesa and Road East oil on canvas 66.2 x 91.4 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1952 Mesa and Road East II oil on canvas 66 x 91.7 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1953 Easter Sunrise oil on canvas 76.3 x 91.5 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1952 Red Tree, Yellow Sky oil on canvas 76.2 x 121.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| c1952 Antelope Horns pencil on paper 47.6 x 61 cm |
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| 1953 Abiquiu Trees VII oil on canvas 25.7 x 30.8 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1953 From the Plains I oil on canvas McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1954 From the Plains II oil on canvas 122 x 183 cm Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, VEGAP., Madrid |
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| 1953 Green Tree oil on canvas 105.4 x 76.5 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1953-55 Black Door with Snow oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm |
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| 1954 A Memory Late Autumn oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA © The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| before 1954 Antelope Head with Pedernal oil on canvas 51.4 x 61.5 cm |
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| 1954 Winter Cottonwoods East V oil on canvas 101.6 x 91.5 cm © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 1955 Black Door with Snow II oil on canvas 76.2 x 45.7 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, WI © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
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| 1955 Black Patio Door oil on canvas 101.9 x 76.2 cm Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas © 2022 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York |
