Modern Masters Artifacts 

Georgia  O'Keeffe

Lithograph "printed in four-color offset lithography on 157 GSM Espel paper

Comes from the art book "In the West" by Georgia O'Keeffe

Supervised by Nicolas Callaway

Printed in 1989 by Nissha Printing Company Ltd.

Measures a large 16" x 13" with margins around the image

Printed 2-sided as issued with another 4-color litho on the verso

Titled : Lilly flower leaf

 

"A flower is relatively small. everyone has many associations with a flower–the idea of flowers. you put your hand to touch the flower– lean forward to smell it– maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking–or give it to someone to please them. still–in a way– nobody sees a flower– really– it is so small–we haven't the time– and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. 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."   georgia o'keeffe

 Info on : Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916, several decades after women had gained access to art training in America’s colleges and universities, and before any of its women artists were well known or highly celebrated. Within a decade, she had distinguished herself as one of America's most important modern artists, a position she maintained throughout her life. As a result, O’Keeffe not only carved out a significant place for women painters in an area of the American art community that had been exclusive to and is still dominated by men, but also she had become one of America’s most celebrated cultural icons well before her death at age 98 in 1986.

Her abstract imagery of the 1910s and early 1920s is among the most innovative of any work produced in the period by American artists. She revolutionized the tradition of flower painting in the 1920s by making large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens. And her depictions of New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade, have been recognized as among the most compelling of any paintings of the modern city. Beginning in 1929, when she first began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. Through paintings of its unique landscape configurations, adobe churches, cultural objects, and the bones and rocks she collected from the desert floor, she ultimately laid claim to this area of the American Southwest, which earlier had been celebrated primarily by male artists; the area around where she worked and lived has become known as “O’Keeffe Country."

 

 

 

 

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