Georgia O’Keeffe

1887-1986American 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 Skull1948, photo by Philippe Halsman

O is for O’KeefeAn artist devineHer 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 II1917, watercolor, 12” x 9”, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas

Blue and Green Music1919, oil on canvas, 23” x 19”, The Art Institute of Chicago

Large Dark Red Leaves on White1925, oil on canvas, 32” x 21”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.

Red Poppy1927, 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 Petunia1927, 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 IV1930, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

Corn Dark I1924, oil on composition board, 31-3/4” x 11-7/8”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York

City Night1926, oil on canvas, 48” x 30”, location unknown

The Lawrence Tree1929, oil on canvas, 31-1/16” x 39-3/16”, Wadsworth

Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Ranchos Church I1929, oil on canvas, 18-1/2” x 24”, Norton Gallery and

School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses1931, 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—Hills1935, oil on canvas, 30” x 32-1/4”, Brooklyn Museum of Art,

Brooklyn, New York

White Shell with Red1938, 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 Waterfall1943, oil on canvas, 30” x 16”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio