Horse’s Skull with Pink Rose by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1931, LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA)
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The sharp angles of layered rock formations anchor the composition. Terracotta cliffs, veined with shadow, ascend towards a pale, diffused sky. Beyond these dominant forms, a dark, mesa-like structure recedes into the middle distance, its silhouette softened by atmospheric haze. The application of thinly brushed strokes creates a delicate layering of the color. This imbues the landscape with a shimmering translucence, suggesting the shifting light of a desert afternoon. Jagged planes, rendered with deliberate economy of line, fracture the foreground. These geometric simplifications hint at the era's embrace of modernist abstraction. Langsdorf's fragmented perspective articulates a world reordered. The fractured forms break down the familiar vista. This treatment of space presages a cultural shift, an interrogation of established visual paradigms. Langsdorf's "Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico" falls within the period American Abstract Expressionism's development, though it predates the full flowering of the movement. It reflects the growing interest among American artists in non-representational forms and the exploration of subjective experience. The work shares affinities with the Color Field painting that would emerge later, emphasizing the emotional impact of color and form. It also connects to the broader trend of artists seeking inspiration in the American landscape, moving away from European artistic dominance.
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico by Martyl Schweig Langsdorf, 1942, Private Collection (?)
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In #FEBRUARY 1930
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‘San Francisco in California - “Where Life Is Better”
Illustration by Philip Little (1857-1942)
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #PhilipLittle #SanFrancisco #California #cityscape #skyscrapers #precisionism
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‘George Giusti (1908 - 1990) was born in Milan, Italy. He studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and did graphic design there before deciding to move to Zürich, Switzerland, where he opened a design studio, which he operated for seven years. While on a visit to the United States in 1938, Giusti was induced to stay by the several excellent commissions that were offered to him, including the opportunity to collaborate with Herbert Matter on the design of the Swiss pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Giusti is well known in Europe and America for his architecture and sculpture, as well as his graphics. Over the years, Giusti garnered more than ten gold and silver medals and eighty other awards and citations.’ https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html
#Fortune for #FEBRUARY 1941
Illustration by George Giusti (1908-1990)
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Cover of *Fortune*, February 1941
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In #FEBRUARY 1932
‘Seattle Convention Number’
#Illustration by F. V. Carpenter (b. 1892)
Cover of *The Rotarian*, February 1932
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Vertical pastel with two pink flowers, one atop the other rising upwards, with green leaves at bottom of work.
Bleeding Heart by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1932, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States)
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In #JANUARY 1935
Illustration by Stan Ekman (Stanley V. Ekman 1911-1997)
Cover of *The Rotarian*, January 1935
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #Precisionism #graphicdesign #graphicdesigners #StanEkman #TheRotarian #RotaryInternational #skyscrapers #cityscape
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Crawford’s strong linear style and simplified form and palette in Whitestone Bridge are representative of the modern Precisionist style. Precisionist artists celebrated industrialization and technology with a visual language that evoked the purity and perfection of the machine. The Whitestone Bridge, linking The Bronx and Queens, was opened in 1939 just in time for the New York World's Fair. The suspension bridge routed travelers coming to the Fair from Upstate and New England away from the congestion of New York City. At the same time, Crawford was moving away from painting traditional landscapes and searching for a vocabulary that was closer in spirit to the streamlined, industrial aesthetic that he was observing in the world around him. The Whitestone Bridge was an excellent match for his artistic aspirations.
Whitestone Bridge by Ralston Crawford, c. 1939, Memorial Art Gallery (University of Rochester) (Rochester, NY)
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#Art: Untitled (Alligator Pear in Red Dish; ca. 1923)
#Artist: #GeorgiaOKeeffe (b. 1887/d.1986)
#ArtMovement/Style: #Precisionism #Modernism #Abstract #ObservationalArt
Medium: Oil on canvas
25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in)
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indeed - and in the spirit of his age - here, with oil on canvas, presents aviation as the consummate achievement of human industry.
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Power - industrial, mechanical, and natural - in the United States, here that generated by a steam turbine.
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and natural - in the United States, here the proverbial power of the locomotive, for his ‘Power Portfolio’.
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- in the United States, here the especially sublime and beautiful Boulder (now Hoover) Dam for his ‘Power Portfolio’.
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‘'... Sheeler’s ability here to conceive near photographic realisation through his paint is tremendous. From the edged shadows of the brick walls above the exiting corridor, to the two workers stooped together in probably incidental reverence, everything is freighted with reality. Especially the turbine, which feels almost surrealist in its aggressive imposition on the picture... I feel an almost benign aggression by Sheeler, a latent tension that hangs the machine as a noose above the men that it towers. The men who, after all, have no real power in the picture. They are presumably for maintenance & button pushing, incapable of the unimaginable power that the beast of ‘Suspended Power’ was built for. An omnipotence Sheeler suggests by cutting ‘Suspended Power’ off at the base, as if the machine itself could burrow right off into the ground & away from everything, off out the canvas even. ...’ https://kweiseye.wordpress.com/tag/charles-sheeler/
Rather, he combined two different perspectives in the painting, reduced the number of figures in the plant, and significantly cleaned up the industrial interior.’
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Choosing amongst them: a railroad, a dam, a waterwheel, a steam engine, an aeroplane, and ... a hydroelectric turbine.’
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image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-3.html: ‘Frederick (Fred) Chance (1911 - 1919) was active in the field of illustration for over fifty years in Philadelphia and New York. He created covers for Vogue magazine in the early 1930s and was still active in magazine cover work in the late 1980s. He purportedly lived to be 109 years of age.’
#Fortune for #NOVEMBER 1939
Illustration by Fred Chance (1911-2007 👉ALT )
Cover of *Fortune*, November 1939
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such glittering geometry; its fear that the machine will put man out of work is a short-range truth, a long-range error.’
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"Black Night: Russell's Corners" George Copeland Ault
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💝"Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn".
Leo Tolstoy
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🖼"Only One"
by Artist Georgia O'Keeffe
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Connecticut Barns Charles Sheeler #Scape
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In #OCTOBER 1931
Cover of *The Rotarian*, October 1931
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Ralston Crawford (5 September 1906–17 April 1978) was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer.
Whitestone Bridge, 1939-1940, oil, 102.24 x 81.28 cm,. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester
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Cliffs Shaft, Ishpeming, Michigan, 6/2025. Fuji Acros 100 Film.
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This painting depicts the landscape Abiquiu, New Mexico, a region that profoundly influenced O'Keeffe's work. It features rolling hills rendered in muted earth tones, ochres, browns, and grays - with subtle variations in color and form. The composition is characterized by simplified shapes and a sense of vastness and quietude. The "Hills to the Left" suggests a specific viewpoint within the broader series, emphasizing the undulating terrain and the play of light and shadow. The painting evokes a feeling of solitude and connection to the natural world.
Ghost Ranch, 2019 (that small person is me)
Series near Abiquiu, New Mexico Hills to the Left by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1937, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, NM)
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A cylindrical white lighthouse tower with a black metal gallery and lantern at the top stands among a cluster of small, square buildings with peaked roofs. A wooden frame surrounds the painting.
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George C. Ault (American, 1891-1948), Highland Light, 1929, oil on canvas.
Via Wikimedia Commons, on display at the de Young Museum, famsf.org
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Electro Metallurgical Company, Division of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. July 1941.
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Rust Red Hills
By #Georgia_OKeeffe
Style: #Precisionism
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Born: November 15, 1887; Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, #UnitedStates
Died: March 6, 1986; Santa Fe, #NewMexico, United States
Nationality: #American
Art Movement: Precisionism
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Ballet Skirt or Electric Light by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1927, The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
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Abstract oval shape with a blue middle surrounded by green, yellow, and red layers.
Abstraction, Seaweed and Water – Maineby Georgia O'Keeffe,1920, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, NM)
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Order and symmetry are in constant tension with the spontaneity of organic ornamentation. The canvas overflows with colorful depictions of flowers and birds within a setting evoking Gothic architecture: pillars of gnarled tree trunks extend outward from the center, as if aisles of a cathedral. Lupine, gladiolas, and birds-of-paradise fill the vertical spaces with a spectrum of colors simulating stained glass windows. Like a congregation in the pews, a host of smaller flowers and plants are gathered below.
Flowers, Italy by Joseph Stella, 1931, Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ)
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