Simple Georgia O Keeffe Flower Paintings

Two calla lily on pink by georgia o keeffe.

Simple georgia o keeffe flower paintings.

I was working at sotheby s. It was during her time in new york that she realized people were too busy to notice her work. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. The shelton with sunspots by georgia o keeffe.

Hopefully this was not the case however i wanted to highlight this one incredible drawing in this month s newsletter. Georgia o keeffe simple georgia o keeffe 1887 1986 georgia o keeffe red poppy vi 1928. Producing a substantial body of work over seven decades she sought to capture the emotion and power of objects through abstracting the natural world. I once met georgia o keeffe.

The painting black iris from 1926 shows the magnified blossom removed from its natural context manifesting the highly evocative and sensual overtones that are the hallmarks of o keeffe s finest flower paintings. She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929. Red hills with flowers by georgia o keeffe. The white flower by georgia o keeffe.

Here is a link to a short biography of o keeffe. Many of o keeffe s works featured images of flowers. Although georgia o keeffe is probably most known for her abstract paintings of flowers she is also known for her paintings of new york skyscrapers and desert skulls. This was not easy to do and i considered it an achievement.

Georgia o keeffe a famous american painter was regarded as the mother of american modernism because of the unique themes and symbolism her paintings focused upon. The georgia o keeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artist s death. Georgia o keeffe played a pivotal role in the development of american modernism and its relationship to european avante garde movements of the early 20 th century. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 44 4 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artist s work as of.

Red hill and white shell by georgia o keeffe. Summary of georgia o keeffe. It was in the early nineteen seventies when i was in my early twenties. O keefe slideshow presentation is here.

Real flowers sharpies watercolors watercolor paper cups of water brushes. Red hills and bones by georgia o keeffe. In o keeffe s red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career.

Summer days by georgia o keeffe. This is when she began painting much larger pieces of work. Georgia o keeffe banana flower charcoal on paper 1934 these drawings could have been easily missed amongst the intriguing worlds of giorgio de chirico and others in the same space.