Georgia O'Keeffe

American, 1887 - 1986

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A single black line swells and tapers as it curves from the upper left corner of this white canvas across to the right edge, and back to near the lower left corner in this abstract painting. The line makes a short, bracket-like form at the upper left before the large curve, like the belly of a capital D, spans the rest of the height of the canvas.  
Georgia O'Keeffe, Winter Road I, 1963, oil on canvas, Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, 1995.4.1

Winter Road I

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1963 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1995.4.1

Georgia O'Keeffe, Sky with Flat White Cloud, 1962, oil on canvas, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.58.8

Sky with Flat White Cloud

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1962 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1987.58.8

Georgia O'Keeffe, Wall with Green Door, 1953, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Woodward Foundation), 2015.19.155

Wall with Green Door

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1953 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.155

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Grey Tree By the Road

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1952 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.184

Georgia O'Keeffe, A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills, 1946, oil on canvas, Anonymous Gift, 2021.58.1

A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1946 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2021.58.1

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Untitled (Cactus Flower)

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1940s · pastel on paperboard ·  Accession ID  1996.84.1

Drawn with charcoal on parchment-white paper, the tightly coiled spiral of a shark eye shell nearly fills this rectangular drawing. The jagged opening of the shell is at the lower right, and the shell curves up and to our left, counterclockwise, into a tight spiral at the center. The wider planes of the outer layers are shaded silvery gray, and they darken to black at the center. A thin shadow is suggested by a soft rim of charcoal around the edges of the shell.
Georgia O'Keeffe, The Shell, 1934, charcoal on laid paper, From the Collection of Dorothy Braude Edinburg, 1978.38.1

The Shell

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1934 · charcoal on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1978.38.1

A close-up view of a deep plum-purple jack-in-the-pulpit flower surrounded by emerald-green leaves fills this vertical painting. The flower is narrow at its base, where it is striped with white and pale lilac purple, and it flares open like a trumpet in the top half of this composition. The unfurled petal is streaked with wavy white and magenta-pink veins around a deep purple tube-like stalk emerging from inside the base. Leaves in spring and kelly green billow up around the base of the flower along the bottom of the canvas, and more leaves surround the top of the flower. The area behind the pointed, curling tip of the flower glows with a lemon-lime yellow. The space around the flower and bewteen the green leaves is mauve pink.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack-in-Pulpit - No. 2, 1930, oil on canvas, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.58.1

Jack-in-Pulpit - No. 2

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1930 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1987.58.1

The curling, flaring petal of a jack-in-the-pulpit blossom wrapping around a vertical, elongated core nearly fills this vertical painting. The flower rises from a narrow base and is veined with white against dark, maroon red. It unfurls to reveal the deep maroon stamen within. Spring-green leaves span the lower edge of the composition, beneath the flower, and billow around the blossom, across the top of the painting. A soft blue and white background recalls clouds in a bright sky.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3, 1930, oil on canvas, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.58.2

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. 3

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1930 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1987.58.2

Tall, sinuous, wine-red, plum-purple, and kelly-green curving forms fill this vertical abstract painting. The forms grow up from the bottom edge and converge into an S-shaped curl near the top of the canvas. A bright white line slices down the background beyond the petal at the top, and tapers to a point about three-quarters of the way down the composition. Two elongated, burgundy-red lobes emerge from black shadow at the lower left. One sliver of green grows up the center, and another flares out to our right. The top edge of the painting is lined with celery green at the middle deepening to grass green at the upper corners.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jack-in-Pulpit Abstraction - No. 5, 1930, oil on canvas, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1987.58.4

Jack-in-Pulpit Abstraction - No. 5

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1930 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1987.58.4

Bibliography

1970

  • Goodrich, Lloyd, and Doris Bry. Georgia O'Keeffe. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Art. New York, 1970.

1976

  • O’Keeffe, Georgia. Georgia O’Keeffe. New York, 1976.

1987

  • Cowart, Jack, Juan Hamilton, and Sarah Greenough. Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1989. Washington, 1987.

1989

  • Lynes, Barbara Buhler. O'Keeffe, Stieglitz and the Critics, 1916-1929. Ann Arbor, 1989.

  • Robinson, Roxana. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. Nwe York, 1989.

1991

  • Eldredge, Charles C. Georgia O'Keeffe. New York, 1991.

1999

  • Lynes, Barbara Buhler. Georgia O’Keeffe, Catalogue Raisonné. 2 vols. New Haven, 1999.

2001

  • Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. 2nd ed. New York, 2001.

2009

  • Haskell, Barbara, ed. Georgia O'Keeffe and Abstraction. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe. New Haven, 2009.

2011

  • O'Keeffe, Georgia. My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Selected, annotated, and edited by Sarah Greenough. New Haven, 2011.

2014

  • Griffin, Randall C. Georgia O'Keeffe. London, 2014.

2015

  • Scott, Nancy J. George O'Keeffe. London, 2015.