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Image: Georgia O'Keeffe, Hibiscus with Plumeria (1939). Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, © 2018 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist from the state of Wisconsin who specialised in depictions of enlarged flowers, skyscrapers and landscapes.
She has been recognised at the “Mother of American modernism”.
O’Keeffe studied art in both New York and Chicago before taking on commercial work and teaching positions in order to sustain herself.
Flower paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe - Wikipedia
Her work took her across the United States and she lived in several different cities, taking art classes during the summer months and seeking to find her own personal style. Around 1912, whilst at the University of Virginia, she was introduced to the work of Arthur Wesley Dow, who focused on capturing the essence and feeling of an object, rather than the exact image of the item or scene.
This had a huge influence on O’Keeffe’s work and she began to experi Georgia O'Keeffe: The Floral Maestro Who Bloomed Amidst ... ZYP