She didn't just paint flowers. Don't miss these amazing watercolor paintings by the Mother of American Modern Art, Georgia O'Keeffe.

1. GEORGIA
O’KEEFFE
WATERCOLORS

4. O’Keeffe married photographer Alfred Stieglitz in
1924. They wrote over 25,000 love letters back and
forth to each other over the course of their lives.

6. O’KEEFFE QUIT PAINTING THREE
TIMES.
Once, she quit in order to take on
stable jobs to support her family.
Once, she quit due to a nervous
breakdown. She didn’t paint for over
a year.
Finally, she had to quit due to failing
eyesight.

9. O’Keeffe was known as the
mother of American Modernism.

10. I found I could say things
with color and shapes that
I couldn't say any other
way - things I had no
words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe

14. O’Keeffe managed to
continue to paint with
watercolors well into
her ninety's - despite
failing eyesight.

16. Georgia O’Keeffe went against the standards of
watercolor of her day. She did not use
watercolor to capture details or to faithfully
recreate a scene. Rather, she used them to
establish the basic shapes and colors of her
scenes. She simplifies her images down to
their essential qualities and her feeling towards
them.

19. I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.
-Georgia O'Keeffe

20. Sun-bleached bones were
most wonderful against the
blue - that blue that will
always be there as it is now
after all man's destruction
is finished.
-Georgia O'Keeffe

27. O’Keeffe used to camp out on the Santa Fe
desert in order to be close to her subject.
She also would paint from inside an old Model
Ford that she had converted into a studio.

28. "I've been absolutely
terrified every moment of my
life and I've never let it keep
me from doing a single thing
I wanted to do.“
-Georgia O’Keeffe

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