Georgia O'Keeffe was a 20th century American painter known for her large-scale paintings of flowers and southwestern landscapes. She began painting flowers at close range after moving to New York in 1914 and assimilating modernist principles. O'Keeffe spent much of her time in New Mexico, where she created imagery synonymous with the American Southwest. Her best known works show colorful, fresh, and sensual flower paintings on a large scale.

2. Georgia O'Keeffe is a 20th
century American painter
best known for her flower
canvases and southwestern
landscapes. A pioneer of
Modern Art, Georgia
O'Keeffe created large-scale
paintings of natural forms
and flowers at close range.
She began to spend much of
her time in New Mexico and
created imagery
synonymous with the
American Southwest.

3. 1918 – photo by Alfred Stieglitz

4. Moving to New York in 1914, Georgia O'Keeffe was quick to assimilate the
principles of European modernism

5. “If I could paint the
flower exactly as I
see it no one would
see what I see
because I would
paint it small like the
flower is small. So I
said to myself - I'll
paint what I see -
what the flower is to
me but I'll paint it big
and they will be
surprised into taking
time to look at it - I
will make even busy
New Yorkers take
time to see what I see
of flowers.”

6. In 1918 she moved to
Manhattan, with the
support of Stieglitz, who
became her husband

7. O’Keeffe
explores the
ambiguous
relationship
between
abstraction and
figurativism
in her large
flower plans

8. Her best known works show
very colorful fresh, and
sensual flowers

59. (1887 – 1986)
In 1946, after her husband’s death, O’Keeffe left to live alone at
Ghost Ranch, in the middle of an indian reservation in Nouveau-
Mexique desert . She died at 99 in Santa Fé.

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Audio: Billy Vaughan, Petite Fleur
2010 - Reviewed -2014