At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism

May 7, 2022–Feb 26, 2023

Exhibition works

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Georgia O’Keeffe
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Georgia O’Keeffe

Organic pink, purple, and orange shapes undulating out from a blue center in the lower left.
Organic pink, purple, and orange shapes undulating out from a blue center in the lower left.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918. Oil on canvas, overall: 35 × 29 15/16 in. (88.9 × 76 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Emily Fisher Landau in honor of Tom Armstrong 91.90. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Georgia O’Keeffe

Born 1887 in Sun Prairie, WI
Died 1986 in Santa Fe, NM

In her abstract paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe invented an original language of form and color that she likened to music in its ability to portray emotions beyond conscious grasp. Rather than depicting the outward, tangible forms of nature, she worked to evoke the experience of being in nature, enveloped by infinitude and a wonder that can not be expressed in words. Using a vocabulary of undulating, biomorphic forms and a technique of gently feathering her strokes of vibrant color into one another, she created animate works that suggest the flowing rhythms of the natural world.

Organic pink, purple, and orange shapes undulating out from a blue center in the lower left.
Organic pink, purple, and orange shapes undulating out from a blue center in the lower left.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918. Oil on canvas, overall: 35 × 29 15/16 in. (88.9 × 76 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Emily Fisher Landau in honor of Tom Armstrong 91.90. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Music, Pink and Blue No. 2, 1918

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