Georgia okeeffe paintings of flowers. 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. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 444 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artists work as of. In okeeffes red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of.
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 okeeffes finest flower paintings. 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. Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism.
The white flower by georgia okeeffe. Georgia okeeffe was a 20th century american painter and pioneer of american modernism best known for her canvases depicting flowers skyscrapers animal skulls and southwestern landscapes. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career.
Summer days by georgia okeeffe. The shelton with sunspots by georgia okeeffe. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes.
Combining the artists personal association with her botanical subject the composition of the painting is at the same time rapturous feminine and deeply modern. Sky above clouds iv by georgia okeeffe. Red hills with flowers 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. The georgia okeeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artists death. Many of okeeffes works featured images of flowers.
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. Red hills and bones by georgia okeeffe.