Each Recognized Work by Georgia O’Keeffe Has Been Digitized and Made Out there On-line

Upon hear­ing the names of Arthur Dove or Mars­den Hart­ley, the sat­u­rat­ed col­ors and organ­i­cal­ly askew strains of these painters’ land­scapes might seem earlier than your thoughts’s eye. However except you’ve got a spe­cial inter­est in Amer­i­can mod­ernists of the ear­ly twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry, they prob­a­bly don’t. The identify Geor­gia O’Ke­effe, by con­trast, can exhausting­ly fail to carry just a few photos even to the thoughts of the strict­ly casu­al artwork appre­ci­a­tor: New Mex­i­can mesas, ani­mal skulls, and above all move­ers in excessive close-up. Other than the artis­tic ability and dis­tinc­tive imaginative and prescient with which she cre­at­ed it, O’Ke­ef­fe’s work per­sists within the wider cul­ture due to how nicely it hap­pens to repro­duce in a vari­ety of con­texts, includ­ing put up­playing cards, mugs, and even appar­el, comparable to that offered at her epony­mous muse­um in San­ta Fe.

Maintain­ing such prod­ucts round is, in fact, no sub­sti­tute for see­ing the true factor; of their phys­i­cal actual­i­ty, O’Ke­ef­fe’s paint­ings have a method of rebuff­ing all of the inter­pre­ta­tions with which they’ve been freight­ed for greater than a cen­tu­ry now. For those who can’t make it out to New Mex­i­co, the Geor­gia O’Ke­effe Muse­um has been work­ing to make each sin­gle one among her items (includ­ing sculp­tures and pho­tographs) avail­ready for view­ing on-line at a just-launched por­tal known as Entry O’Ke­effe.

The muse­um describes it as a “user-friend­ly, search­ready net­web site with high-res­o­lu­tion photos, visu­al descrip­tions, exhi­bi­tion his­to­ries, archival mate­ri­als, and analysis knowledge asso­ci­at­ed with the artist’s two-vol­ume cat­a­logue raison­né.” The site’s vis­i­tors “can browse by col­or, form, or medi­um, discover the con­textual content of works cre­at­ed earlier than and after a spe­cif­ic paint­ing, hint his­toric exhi­bi­tions, cre­ate lists of favorites, and down­load photos.”

Entry O’Ke­effe makes it simple to search out the artist’s most well-known paint­ings, but in addition works which will sur­prise view­ers who solely know her mesas, skulls, and move­ers. Take, for examination­ple, such noc­tur­nal­ly themed can­vas­es as her ear­ly Starlight Night time, from 1917, or her late Unti­tled (Metropolis Night time), from the 9­teen-sev­en­ties. O’Ke­ef­fe’s Amer­i­ca, we should remem­ber, isn’t lim­it­ed to the desert: although she did spend most of her close to­ly cen­tu­ry-long life’s sec­ond half in New Mex­i­co, it additionally took her from Wis­con­sin to Vir­ginia to Texas to New York, with stints in South Automotive­oli­na and Hawaii. Giv­en the impor­tance of below­stand­ing any artist’s con­texts each geo­graph­i­cal and social, Entry O’Ke­effe additionally professional­vides an archive of arti­information and exhi­bi­tions relat­ed to the peo­ple and orga­ni­za­tions asso­ci­at­ed along with her — Arthur Dove and Mars­den Hart­ley includ­ed.

Relat­ed con­tent:

Geor­gia O’Keeffe: A Life in Artwork, a Quick Doc­u­males­tary on the Painter Nar­rat­ed by Gene Hack­man

How Geor­gia O’Keeffe Grew to become Geor­gia O’Keeffe: An Ani­mat­ed Video Tells the Sto­ry

An Intro­duc­tion to the Paint­ing That Modified Geor­gia O’Keeffe’s Profession: Ram’s Head, White Hol­ly­hock-Hills

The Actual Geor­gia O’Keeffe: The Artist Reveals Her­self in Vin­tage Doc­u­males­tary Clips

Recipes from the Kitchen of Geor­gia O’Keeffe

Alfred Stieglitz: The Elo­quent Eye, a Reveal­ing Have a look at “The Father of Mod­ern Pho­tog­ra­phy”

Based mostly in Seoul, Col­in Marshall writes and broad­casts on cities, lan­guage, and cul­ture. He’s the creator of the newslet­ter Books on Cities in addition to the books 한국 요약 금지 (No Sum­ma­riz­ing Korea) and Kore­an Newtro. Fol­low him on the social internet­work for­mer­ly referred to as Twit­ter at @colinmarshall.