Georgia O Keeffe New Mexico Landscape Paintings

Georgia o keeffe born november 15 1887 near sun prairie wisconsin u s died march 6 1986 santa fe new mexico american painter best known for her large format paintings of natural forms especially flowers and bones and for her depictions of new york city skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to northern new.

Georgia o keeffe new mexico landscape paintings.

Princeton university press this is a chronology of her relationship with new mexico sourced from a really excellent book about georgia o keeffe and new mexico. Born on november 15 1887 the second of seven children georgia totto o keeffe grew up on a farm. O keeffe relocated from new york full time in 1949 but her new mexico story begins 20 years earlier with a visit to a friend s artist enclave in taos. Georgia o keeffe a famous american painter was regarded as the mother of american modernism because of the unique themes and symbolism her paintings focused upon.

2003 1 1 georgia o keeffe is one of the most significant artists of the 20 th century renowned for her contribution to modern art. The rugged terrain of new mexico is stunning and rugged in equal measure and offered hues ideal to her expressive artistic style. Considered the mother of american modernism o keeffe moved to new mexico after her husband s death and was inspired by the landscape to create numerous well known paintings. O keeffe died on.

Georgia o keeffe and new mexico is the first book to analyze the artist s famous depictions of these southwestern landscapes. As a key gardener and modernist artist who placed a high importance on colour it was inevitable that landscape paintings would make their way into the career of georgia o keeffe. Gift of the georgia o keeffe foundation. She was renowned for her over sized flowers beauteous landscapes of new mexico and plush skyscrapers of new york made between 1925 and 1929.

This was the idea behind my recent visit to northern new mexico to view this land of enchantment as it was taglined in the postwar years through o keeffe s singular eye. Georgia o keeffe georgia o keeffe new mexico. In the fall of that year she accepted a mural commission at radio city music hall which she ultimately abandoned because of technical problems.