{"data":{"id":"984","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":984,"topgoose_id":6861,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":984,"title":"Flower Abstraction","display_artist_text":"Georgia O'Keeffe","display_date":"1924","accession_number":"85.47","dimensions":"Overall: 48 1/8 × 30 in. (122.2 × 76.2 cm)","medium":"Oil on canvas","department":"collection","classification":"Paintings","credit_line":"50th Anniversary Gift of Sandra Payson","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorgia O'Keeffe, \u003cem\u003eFlower Abstraction\u003c/em\u003e, 1924. Oil on canvas, overall: 48 1/8 × 30 in. (122.2 × 76.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 50th Anniversary Gift of Sandra Payson 85.47. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlower Abstraction\u003c/i\u003e is among the earliest of Georgia O’Keeffe’s large-scale flower paintings, which she continued to produce through the 1950s. In these paintings, O’Keeffe harnessed the technique of close cropping that she had learned from modernist photography, especially the work of Paul Strand, with her own pictorial vocabulary of undulating forms and soft gradations of tone. In this way, she transformed her botanical subjects into compositions that oscillate between abstraction and representation. The magnified flower in \u003ci\u003eFlower Abstraction \u003c/i\u003eseems to extend beyond its frames, as if without measurable boundaries. By utilizing a small, ordinary flower to suggest the immensity of nature, O’Keeffe sought to undermine her viewers’ habitual ways of looking. As she remarked, “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.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"Abstract painting with soft pink, peach, and cream colors forming organic, flowing shapes.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:11:06.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:03.414-05:00","images":[{"id":92538,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/984/85_47_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"962","type":"artist"}]}}}}