Georgia okeeffe paintings flowers. Georgia okeeffe paintings okeeffes rise to fame was against all the odds both as a female and in the modern style which she made her own the bold modernist style of okeeffe adorn this colourful section which features all the themes that you would expect to find in a summary of her work large scale flowers animal bones plus landscapes. The shelton with sunspots by georgia okeeffe. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 444 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artists work as of.
Georgia okeeffe flower paintings okeeffes career was long and varied but the theme for which she will always be most famous is of course flowers it is these that have established her as one of the major figures of american art and also highly influential female artist. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career. Summer days by georgia okeeffe.
Red hill and white shell by georgia okeeffe. Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism. Red hills and bones by georgia okeeffe.
Two calla lily on pink by georgia okeeffe. In 1905 okeeffe began her serious formal art training at the school of the art institute of chicago and then the art students league of. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes.
The white flower 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. Sky above clouds iv by georgia okeeffe.