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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) Black Door with Snow signed with initials and dated ‘1/16/53/OK’ (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.) Painted in 1953-1955
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Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe, The Black Place, 1944. gelatin silver print. Maria Chabot Archive. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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Georgia O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, ca. 1921. Gelatin silver print, 4 7/16 x 3 ½ inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Museum Purchase
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Georgia O'Keeffe. Petunia No. 2, 1924. Oil on canvas, 36 1/16 x 30 1/8 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation and Gerald and Kathleen Peters. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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“Georgia OKeeffe holds smooth rocks in her hands at home in Abiquiu, New Mexico,1971. Photo: Basil Langton”
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Georgia O'Keeffe. Bleeding Heart, 1932.
Pastel on paper-faced gray cardboard-
© Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
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‘Ram’s Head with Hollyhock’, 1935 - Georgia O’Keeffe (oil on canvas)
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“Making your unknown known is the important thing–and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
Georgia O'Keeffe.
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“I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.” - Georgia O’Keeffe
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Black Iris by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), 1926, oil on canvas
“Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small. So I said to myself - I’ll paint what I see - what the flower is to me, but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it - I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”
-Georgia O’Keeffe
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From the Lake (1924) by Georgia O'Keeffe. Oil on canvas.
Oriental Poppies (1928) by Georgia O'Keeffe. Oil on canvas.
We really haven’t found enough dreams. We haven’t dreamed enough. ~*Georgia O’Keeffe ⠀
Photo: Philippe Halsman, Georgia O'Keeffe, Abiquiu, N.M., 1948
My aspiration in life would be….to be happy
Nude series, Georgie O’Keeffe / Pretty Hurts, Beyoncé
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The Real Meaning of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Flowers
Georgia O’Keeffe knew flowers better than most. In the 1930s, she wrote of her desire to paint the humble flower enlarged and up-close. “I’ll paint it big, and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it,” she wrote. “I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”
Busy New Yorkers did take time, but many of them didn’t see what O’Keeffe saw. Since her first gallery show in 1916, critics have hailed her work—especially those close-cropped flora portraits—as an expression of womanhood and, often, the female sex organ. For nearly as long, O’Keeffe, who died in 1986, begged to differ.
“You hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower,” she complained in 1939. “You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower—and I don’t.” Read more.
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