Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe developed one of the most distinctive languages in American modernism by moving between abstraction and close observation. Early charcoal abstractions brought her to the attention of photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz, who began exhibiting her work in New York in 1916. She became known for enlarged flowers, Manhattan architecture and, later, the bones, cliffs and open spaces of New Mexico. O’Keeffe eventually settled permanently in northern New Mexico, where landscape became both subject and structure for her painting.

Painting; drawing; watercolor