Flower paintings by georgia okeeffe. The american artist georgia okeeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes. Sky above clouds iv by georgia okeeffe.
The white flower by georgia okeeffe. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career. Red hills and bones by georgia okeeffe.
Summer days by georgia okeeffe. Georgia okeeffe was an american artist who is known for her revolutionary paintings and for being the leading figure of the art movement american modernism which started at the turn of the twentieth centuryher most famous artworks are those which provide a dramatically large sensual close up of flowers as if they are being seen through a magnifying lens. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 444 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artists work as of.
Red hills with flowers by georgia okeeffe. Georgia totto okeeffe november 15 1887 march 6 1986 was an american artist. Okeeffes jimson weedwhite flower no.
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 okeeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artists death. Combining the artists personal association with her botanical subject the composition of the painting is at the same time rapturous feminine and deeply modern.
In okeeffes red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of. Two calla lily on pink by georgia okeeffe. The shelton with sunspots by georgia okeeffe.
Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. Many of okeeffes works featured images of flowers.
Robison iii it has been exactly a century since okeeffe first showed her work at 291 gallery in new york and she is. She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929.