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Motivational Mondays with O'Keeffe
 
Georgia O’Keeffe’s first signs of macular degeneration appeared in 1964. However, even with her eyesight slowly beginning to fade, she stayed persistent in her art. She found a way around this obstacle and used her other senses to capture…

Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters

Join us with Amy Von Lintel next Tuesday, February 16th at 12 p.m (MT), for a lecture on her most recent book, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters, which explores a time in O’Keeffe’s life when she was developing her future iden…

"When I knew I was going to stay in New York, I sent for things I had left in Texas. They came in a barrel and among them were all my old drawings and paintings. I put them in with the wastepaper trash to throw away and that night when Stieglitz and I came home after dark th…

Experiencing macular degeneration, O’Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O’Keeffe’s will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, “I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is s…

"The meaning of a word to me is not as exact as the meaning of a color. Colors and shapes make a more definite statement than words." – Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe. Series I - From the Plains, 1919. Oil on canvas, 27 7/16 x 23 1/2 in. GOKM

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O'Keeffe drew her inspiration from the tangible and intangible. In this work, recognizable and familiar forms are juxtaposed against the etherial and dream-like elements.

Georgia O'Keeffe. Abstraction, Alexius, 1928. Oil on canvas. Daros Collection, Switzerland, 1998

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#Music served as an inexhaustible source of #inspiration for O'Keeffe. She said, "I love music more than anything. Only the color makes me feel the same thrill.”

What song do you hear? 💙

Music Pink and Blue No. I, 1918. Oil on canvas, 35 x 29 in. Seattle Art Museum, 2000.161

O'Keeffe loved photography and used techniques familiar to the medium in her paintings of flowers, such as magnification, cropping, and filling the canvas by "zooming in" on her subject.

3 Zinnias, 1921. Oil on canvas, 6 x 8 in. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © GOKM

Whether flowers, bones, aspects of Pueblo culture, or Catholic crosses, O’Keeffe’s New Mexico artworks speak to her desire to capture “all the life that has been lived in a place.”

Easter Sunrise, 1953. Oil on canvas, 30 1/16 x 36 1/16 inches. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

“I can never bear to have people around me when I’m working, or to let anybody see what I’m doing or say anything about it until it’s finished.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

Untitled, Abstraction Orange Curve & Circles, 1970s. Watercolor on paper, 30 1/2 x 22 in. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum