Friday 5 August 2022

Georgia O’Keeffe - part 9

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 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 9 of 11 on the works of Georgia O’Keeffe: 

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

1944 Pelvis II
oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1944 Pelvis III
oil on canvas (details not found)

1944 Pelvis IV
oil on Masonite 91.5 x 102.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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

1945 Abstraction
cast bronze 91.4 x 91.4 x 11.4 cm

Abstraction
(details not found)

Abstraction
(details not found)

1945 Abstraction
charcoal on paper 60.9 x 21.6 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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

1945 Black Place II
oil on canvas 61 x 76.2 cm
Vilcek Foundation, New York

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

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

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

1945 Goat's Horns with Blue
pastel on paper laid down on board 71.1 x 90.2 cm

1945 Hills and Mesa to the West
oil on canvas 48.3 x 91.4 cm

1945 My Back Yard
oil on canvas 25.4 x 20.3 cm

1945 Pedernal
pastel on paper 54.6 x 109.8 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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

1946 Dark Tree Trunks
oil on canvas 101.6 x 76.2 cm
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1946 In the Patio No. I
oil on paper laid down on board 75.5 x 60.3 cm

1946 Part of the Cliff
oil on canvas 91.7 x 50.9 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

c1946 Untitled (Patio Door)
graphite on paper 43 x 35.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

c1946 Untitled (Patio Door)
pencil on paper 43.1 x 35.6 cm

1948 Cottonwood and Pedernal
oil on canvas 25.4 x 30.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1948 In the Patio III
oil on canvas 45.7 x 76.2 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1948 In the Patio No. IV
oil on canvas 35.5 x 76.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1948 Spring
oil on canvas 122.5 x 214 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

c1949 Brooklyn Bridge
pencil on paper 25.7 x 19.7 cm

1949 Brooklyn Bridge
charcoal and chalk on paper 101.3 x 74.9 cm

1949 Brooklyn Bridge
oil on Masonite 121.8 x 91.1 cm
Brooklyn Museum, New York

1950 Early Spring Trees Above Irrigation Ditch, Abiquiu
oil on canvas 76.2 x 66 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1950 In the Patio VIII
oil on canvas 66 x 50.8 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1950 In the Patio IX
oil on canvas mounted on panel 76.2 x 101.6 cm
Vilcek Foundation, New York

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

1950 Winter Trees, Abiquiu I
oil on canvas 60.9 x 50.8 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

c1950 Untitled (Poppy)
pencil on paper 34.9 x 25.1 cm

1951 Trees Abiquiu IV
oil on canvas 35.4 x 30.5 cm

1952 Cottonwoods
oil on canvas 76.2 x 91.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1952 Ghost Ranch Cliff
oil on canvas 40.6 x 76.2 cm

1952 Lavender Hill with Green
oil on canvas 30.4 x 69 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1952 Mesa and Road East
oil on canvas 66.2 x 91.4 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1952 Mesa and Road East II
oil on canvas 66 x 91.7 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1953 Easter Sunrise
oil on canvas 76.3 x 91.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1952 Red Tree, Yellow Sky
oil on canvas 76.2 x 121.2 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

c1952 Antelope Horns
pencil on paper 47.6 x 61 cm

1953 Abiquiu Trees VII
oil on canvas 25.7 x 30.8 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1953 From the Plains I
oil on canvas McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum - Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

1954 From the Plains II
oil on canvas 122 x 183 cm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
© Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, VEGAP., Madrid

1953 Green Tree
oil on canvas 105.4 x 76.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1953-55 Black Door with Snow
oil on canvas 91.4 x 76.2 cm

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

before 1954 Antelope Head with Pedernal
oil on canvas 51.4 x 61.5 cm

1954 Winter Cottonwoods East V
oil on canvas 101.6 x 91.5 cm
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico

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

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