Georgia O’Keeffe 1887-1986 American Painter To create one's own world, in any of the arts, takes...
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Georgia O’Keeffe
1887-1986American Painter
To create one's own world, in any of the arts,
takes courage. Georgia O'Keeffe
Photo of Georgia O’Keeffe with Horse’s Skull1948, photo by Philippe Halsman
O is for O’KeefeAn artist devineHer paintings are perfect,Drawings are fine.
-Poem by O’Keefe’s fellow students, posted in the Chatham
Episcopal Institute yearbook
Light Coming on the Plains II1917, watercolor, 12” x 9”, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas
Blue and Green Music1919, oil on canvas, 23” x 19”, The Art Institute of Chicago
Large Dark Red Leaves on White1925, oil on canvas, 32” x 21”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.
Red Poppy1927, oil on canvas, 7-1/8” x 9”, Private collection
“I’ll paint what I see, what the flower is to me but I’ll make it big….I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers”
Purple Petunia1927, oil on canvas, 36” x 30”, Private collection
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way – things I had no words for”
Jack in the Pulpit IV1930, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Corn Dark I1924, oil on composition board, 31-3/4” x 11-7/8”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York
City Night1926, oil on canvas, 48” x 30”, location unknown
The Lawrence Tree1929, oil on canvas, 31-1/16” x 39-3/16”, Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Ranchos Church I1929, oil on canvas, 18-1/2” x 24”, Norton Gallery and
School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses1931, oil on canvas, 35-3/4” x 24”, The Art Institute of Chicago
“I think…that I am one of the few who gives our country any voice of its own.”
Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock—Hills1935, oil on canvas, 30” x 32-1/4”, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, New York
White Shell with Red1938, pastel on paper, 21” x 27”, Art Institute of Chicago
“I have picked up sea shells and rocks and pieces of wood…I have used these things to say what is me, the wideness and wonder of the world I live in.
Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall1943, oil on canvas, 30” x 16”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
![Georgia O'Keeffe [American Painter, 1887-1986]. Georgia O’Keeffe was born on her family’s large Wisconsin farm in 1887. She would become one of America’s.](https://static.fdocuments.net/doc/165x107/56649f435503460f94c63dc0/georgia-okeeffe-american-painter-1887-1986-georgia-okeeffe-was-born.jpg)
