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Hilda Belcher, The Checkered Dress, 1907, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.The painting is likely a portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe. [a]Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, [15] [16] in a farmhouse in the town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.
The American artist Georgia O'Keeffe is best known for her close-up, or large-scale flower paintings, [1] which she painted from the mid-1920s through the 1950s. [2] She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2,000 paintings that she made over her career. [3] One of her paintings, Jimson Weed, sold for $44.4 million, making it the ...
An older, but similar work by O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), focusing on only a single flower, was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton in 2014 for $44,405,000, more than tripling the previous world record auction for a piece by a female artist. [5]
A recent study by online art gallery Singulart found that Wisconsin native Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is the most displayed female artist across American museum art collections.
Sky Above Clouds (1960–1977) is a series of eleven cloudscape paintings by the American modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe, produced during her late period.The series of paintings is inspired by O'Keeffe's views from her airplane window during her frequent air travel in the 1950s and early 1960s when she flew around the world.
The film addresses all the signature O'Keeffe motifs: the famous flowers, the charcoal drawings, the New York skyscrapers and the near abstractions. "People are so stuck on the flowers," Wagner said.