Simple Georgia O Keeffe Flower Paintings

Two calla lily on pink by georgia o keeffe.

Simple georgia o keeffe flower paintings.

It was during her time in new york that she realized people were too busy to notice her work. Red hill and white shell by georgia o keeffe. 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. The american artist georgia o keeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s.

She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career. Here is a link to a short biography of o keeffe. I once met georgia o keeffe. The georgia o keeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artist s death.

This was not easy to do and i considered it an achievement. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. Hopefully this was not the case however i wanted to highlight this one incredible drawing in this month s newsletter. 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.

It was in the early nineteen seventies when i was in my early twenties. Producing a substantial body of work over seven decades she sought to capture the emotion and power of objects through abstracting the natural world. Red hills and bones by georgia o keeffe. Georgia o keeffe simple georgia o keeffe 1887 1986 georgia o keeffe red poppy vi 1928.

This is when she began painting much larger pieces of work. 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. O keefe slideshow presentation is here.

Sky above clouds iv by georgia o keeffe. I was working at sotheby s. The shelton with sunspots by georgia o keeffe. 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 hills with flowers by georgia o keeffe. Combining the artist s personal association with her botanical subject the composition of the painting is at the same time rapturous feminine and deeply modern. In o keeffe s red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of. 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.

Summer days by georgia o keeffe. 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. Many of o keeffe s works featured images of flowers.