
Lake George Reflection (circa 1921) through Wikimedia Commons
What involves thoughts once you consider Georgia O’Keeffe?
Bleached skulls within the desert?
Aerial views of clouds, nearly automobiletoonish of their puffiness?
Voluptuous circulateers (freighted with an erotic cost the artist could not have intended)?
Probably not Polaroid prints of a darkish haired pet chow sprawled on flagstones…
Or watercolor sketches of demurely pretty women…
Or a massive forged iron abstraction…
In case your knowlfringe of America’s most celebrated feminine artist is confined to the reward store’s niceest hits, you would possibly get pleasure from a leisurely prowl by the 1100+ works within the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s digital collection.
A most important objective of this collection is to professionalvide a extra complete beneathstanding of the life and work of the iconic artist, who died in 1986 on the age of 98.
Her evolution is evident once you search by materials or date.
You may as well view works by other artists in the collection, including two very significant males in her life, photographer Alfred Stieglitz and ceramicist Juan Hamilton.
Every merchandise’s checklisting is enhanced with information on inscriptions and exhibitions, in addition to hyperlinks to other works professionalduced in the identical 12 months.
Visit the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s on-line collection right here. And watch a documalestary introduction to O’Keeffe, narrated by Gene Hackman, under:
Notice: An earlier version of this publish appeared on our website in 2020.
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Ayun Halliday is an creator, illustrator, theater maker and Chief Primatologist in NYC.

