In her art...

...Georgia O’Keeffe explored a multitude of subjects and themes.

Charcoals

It’s stunning that she could undertake drawings that are so complicated, so ambitious, and so authoritative. And these are really the O’Keeffes that we have come to understand is a new voice in American art.   Roxana Robinson

No. 9 Special, 1915

Abstraction

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music achieves this end. Wassily Kandinsky

From the Lake No. I, 1924

Flowers

O’Keeffe is figuring out what she can borrow from the language of photography and incorporating it into her own work. Sarah Greenough

I don’t think photography had a thing to do with it. Georgia O’Keeffe

Jimson Weed, White Flower No. 1, 1932

Lake George

I think for O’Keeffe, it was about coming to terms with a place and making it her own.

Erin Coe

Lake George Blue, 1926

Trees

If a tree speaks or smiles, it is with all its body. So O’Keeffe, whose paintings are but the leaves and flowers of herself.

Waldo Frank

White Birch, 1925

Bones

I took home a barrel of bones to Lake George.  And I really started painting the bones up there because I still wanted to be painting this country (northern New Mexico). Georgia O’Keeffe

Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock - Hills, 1935

New York

The question of her generation is: Who will paint New York? Elizabeth Hutton Turner

And Stieglitz said to her, “Better to stick with the flowers.” Nancy Scott

Who is going to paint New York? She is going to paint New York. Elizabeth Hutton Turner

New York Street with Moon, 1925

New Mexico

The mountains and the scrubby cedar were so rich and warm colored they seemed to come right up to me and touch my skin—it all has a glitter—the whole landscape. Georgia O’Keeffe

Red Hills with Pedernal, White Clouds, 1936

Doors

It’s a very simple idea, isn’t it? Take the rectangle of the page and draw a door.  It was an exercise in Dow’s book, it’s an exercise O’Keeffe often used with her students. And yet it becomes a vehicle for transcendence.

Elizabeth Hutton Turner

Black Door with Snow, 1955