Georgia O'Keeffe

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The painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) is considered a pioneer of American art. This catalog presents the full range of her work, from her early abstract paintings of the 1910s to the large-scale flower and nature pieces of the 1920s, and includes her famous cityscapes of New York and the vast landscapes of New Mexico. Throughout her long career, O'Keeffe explored a spectrum of artistic possibilities and motifs in often enigmatic images. Her symphonic color compositions are part of the classic repertoire of 20th-century art, documenting the liberation of American art from European traditions and the radical emancipation of a female artist. The catalog also features photographs, furniture, clothing, and work materials that illustrate the life of an extraordinary woman closely tied to the solitude of the New Mexico landscapes. In the photographs by her gallerist and later husband Alfred Stieglitz, she found herself as an art object, with his famous images of her once considered shockingly erotic. The presentation is complemented by works from renowned photographers like Ansel Adams, Todd Webb, and Arnold Newman, offering an overview of her entire oeuvre, including a representative selection of her paintings, works on paper, and sculptures.