Georgia O'Keeffe masterpieces

Jimson Weed/White Flower N° 1 - 1932 / Red Canna, 1924
Jimson weed/White flower n° 1 - 1932
Red canna - 1924

Colour, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation - Henri Matisse

Georgia O'Keeffe's flowers

The first time, I've discovered this artist was in an article in my dad's magazine Sélection Reader's Digest: I was mesmerized by her magnificent huge white irises and pink tulips that captivated me.

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), an American painter, is considered to be one  of the main founders of modern art and significant artists of the 20th century.  She is best known for her large-format paintings of flowers and for her depictions of New York skyscrapers and landscapes of the Northern New Mexico desert.

Grew up on a farm in Wisconsin, she loved art lessons at home with her 6 brothers and sisters.
She studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York , where she learned the techniques of traditional painting.
In 1908, she won the League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her still life oil painting.

But she quit painting 3 times in her life: 1st because she realized that many painters had already done the same kind of painting before her; 2nd time, she was hospitalized for depression for a brief period in the 1930s; and last time, in 1976, due her suffering from macular degeneration and failing vision.

She was strongly influenced by Arthur Wesley Dow, a painter, printmaker, writer, and the leading art teacher in the United States.  Arthur Wesley Dow himself, is an East Coast painter influenced by Japanese art, who advocated simplifying forms as a means of capturing their essence and developing a personal style.
Then, she acquired the principles taught by Arthur Wesley Dow and adopted an organic abstract approach similar to him.

Favourite masterpieces

Yellow callas, 1926
Red poppy, 1927
Cottonwoods, 1925
Cottonwood tree in Spring, 1943
From the Plains I, 1953
From the River-Pale, 1959
Hibiscus with plumeria, 1939
Music pink and blue II, 1918
Pedernal, 1941-42
Pedernal, 1945
Pink tulip, 1926
Red canna, 1925-28
Red, yellow and black streak, 1924
The white flower, 1932
Two calla lilies on pink, 1928
White flower, 1929
White iris, 1930
My Front Yard, Summer, 1941
My front yard, Summer - 1941


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