Posts by Georgia O'Keeffe
Fascinated by contrasts in scale, Georgia O’Keeffe frequently juxtaposed enlarged still-life elements with far-off landscapes, as seen in Black Cross, New Mexico. She continued this practice in Red Hills with Flowers, an image of vibrant flowers magnified and set against the red hills that surrounded her New Mexico home. The striking colors of the land intrigued her, and she later equated the area’s myriad hues with artist paints: “All the earth colors of the painter’s palette are out there in the many miles of badlands. The light Naples yellow through the ochers—orange and red and purple earth—even the soft earth greens.” Bequest of Hortense Henry Prosser
Red Hills with Flowers https://www.artic.edu/artworks/118577/
copyright transferred to Brooklyn Museum, 2006
Rib and Jawbone (recto) and Tulip (verso) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1...
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills (Ram's Head and White Hollyhock, New Mexico)
Ram's Head, White Hollyhock-Hills (Ram's Head and White Hollyhock, New Mexico) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/2...
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
It Was Yellow and Pink III https://www.artic.edu/artworks/70036/
The Black Place was Georgia O’Keeffe’s name for one of her favorite locations to paint, discovered as she toured New Mexico in her Model A Ford. Located in the Bisti Badlands about 150 miles from Ghost Ranch, the dude ranch north of Abiquiu where O’Keeffe lived in the summer, the Black Place featured a landscape of numerous black and gray hills. O’Keeffe later described the terrain as looking “like a mile of elephants—grey hills all about the same size with almost white sand at their feet.” In The Black Place, she emphasized the rolling continuity of the rounded hills. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
The Black Place https://www.artic.edu/artworks/32630/
Gray line with black, blue, and yellow
Gray line with black, blue, and yellow www.wikiart.org/en/georgia-o-keeffe/gray...
Georgia O’Keeffe traveled to the Gaspé Peninsula, in Quebec, Canada, in the summer of 1932, accompanied by Alfred Stieglitz’s niece, Georgia Engelhard, who was also an artist. The old barns and crosses built by the region’s French settlers fascinated O’Keeffe, as did the lush green terrain, which she featured in Green Mountains, Canada. In this panoramic landscape, she captured the massive appearance of the mountains as they rise sharply from the water’s edge. Although she enjoyed her trip to Canada, and returned again that year, ultimately O’Keeffe preferred the New Mexican landscape, specifically its brilliant sunshine. Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
Green Mountains, Canada https://www.artic.edu/artworks/2895/
Birch Trees at Dawn on Lake George
Birch Trees at Dawn on Lake George https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/5324/
copyright transferred to Brooklyn Museum, 2006
Red Hills with the Pedernal www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1...