Transcript Georgia O`Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe
1887-1986
American 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 Skull
1948, photo by Philippe Halsman
O is for O’Keefe
An artist devine
Her 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 II
1917, watercolor, 12” x 9”, Amon
Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas
Blue and Green Music
1919, oil on canvas, 23” x 19”, The Art
Institute of Chicago
Large Dark Red Leaves on
White
1925, oil on canvas, 32” x 21”, The
Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.
Red Poppy
1927, 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 Petunia
1927, 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 IV
1930, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Corn Dark I
1924, oil on composition board, 313/4” x 11-7/8”, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York
City Night
1926, oil on canvas, 48” x 30”, location
unknown
The Lawrence Tree
1929, oil on canvas, 31-1/16” x 39-3/16”, Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Ranchos Church I
1929, oil on canvas, 18-1/2” x 24”, Norton Gallery and
School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Cow’s Skull with Calico
Roses
1931, 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—Hills
1935, oil on canvas, 30” x 32-1/4”, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, New York
White Shell with Red
1938, 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
Waterfall
1943, oil on canvas, 30” x 16”,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland,
Ohio