Georgia okeeffe skull and flowers. Cows skull with calico roses 1931 by georgia okeeffe click image to view detail. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 444 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artists work as of. Around the time of the paintings creation american artists musicians and writers were interested in identifying a uniquely american style and subject matter for their work.
Red white and blue 1931 contents description analysis explanation of other 20th century paintings. Okeeffe has been recognized as the mother of american modernism. 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.
Georgia okeeffe was intimately acquainted with an american scene which for many of her contemporaries existed only in the imagination and she knew that it encompassed more than the clicheed image of a dilapidated house with a broken down buckboard out front and a. Cows skull with calico roses by georgia okeeffe. Blue and green music by georgia okeeffe.
Black place by georgia okeeffe. 1013 x 911 cm. Georgia totto okeeffe november 15 1887 march 6 1986 was an american artist.
She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers new york skyscrapers and new mexico landscapes. Cows skull red white and blue by georgia okeeffe. She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2000 paintings that she made over her career.
Regarded as one of the greatest 20th century paintings. Red white and blue 1931 artist. Redwhiteblue by georgia okeeffe.
The horses skull on blue by georgia okeeffe. In 2014 the georgia okeefe museum sold a floral painting for 44 million dollars at auction setting the record for artwork sold by a female artist. Canna red and orange by georgia okeeffe.
While her work varied between the literal portraits abstractions and landscapes okeeffes work is still most identified by her iconic flower paintings. 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. Autumn trees the maple 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. Red white and blue was created by okeeffe in 1931. The horses skull on blue 1930 by georgia okeeffe click image to view detail.