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Abstraction, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1926, by Georgia O'Keeffe. From the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

United States · 1887–1986

Georgia O'Keeffe

Modernist who magnified flowers, bones and desert forms into vast abstracted landscapes.

  • Monumental
  • Serene
  • Nature & Ecology

Fun fact

She hated the erotic readings of her flower paintings, saying critics were 'writing about themselves, not me.'

How she made it

Oil brushed to a near-invisible finish: she sanded grounds smooth, blended with soft brushes and left no visible stroke, so scale and edge do the work. Compositions were cropped from charcoal studies until only the essential curve remained.

Work
Abstraction, by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1926
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