Georgia O'Keeffe: Everyday Visions

Pedernal, 1945

Sky with Flat White Cloud 1962 / Sky Above the Clouds Ill / Above the Clouds Ill 1963

Pelvis Series 1947 / Lake George 1922

Pedernal with Red Hills 1936 / Rust Red Hills 1930

Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico 1930 / Pool in the Woods, Lake George 1922

Winter Road, 1963 / Jimson Weed (White Flower No. 1) 1932

Deer's Skull with Pedernal 1936 / Mules Skull with Pink Poinsettia, 1930

Grey Tree, Lake George 1925 / From the Lake. No. 2 1924

Sunrise 1916 / The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y. 1926

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe 1918

Born in 1887 near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe received art training at the Art Institute of Chicago school (1905), the Art Students League of New York (1907–8), the University of Virginia (1912), and Columbia University’s Teachers College, New York (1914–16). She became an art teacher and taught in various elementary schools, high schools, and colleges in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina from 1911 to 1918. During this period, she produced a remarkable series of charcoal drawings that led her art—and her career—in a new direction. These daring works of 1915–16 (50.236.2) orchestrated line, shape, and tone into abstract compositions. It was through these drawings that O’Keeffe came to the attention of the prominent photographer and New York gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz in January 1916. After supposedly exclaiming, “At last, a woman on paper!” he exhibited her drawings at the 291 gallery, where the works of many avant-garde European and American artists and photographers were introduced to the American public. [source]