Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist

Arnold A. Newman, 3 Mar 1918 - 6 Jun 2006

Sitter

Georgia O'Keeffe, 15 Nov 1887 - 6 Mar 1986

Exhibition Label

Born Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

Georgia O’Keeffe first traveled to New Mexico in 1929 and moved there permanently in 1949, following the death of her husband, Alfred Stieglitz. Although she achieved early success as a modernist painter living in the East, the landscape of the desert Southwest gave O’Keeffe her greatest inspiration. She painted familiar subjects such as flowers, adobe buildings, and objects found on walks around her remote home. Yet she did so in a unique way, often transforming common items into colorful abstractions with an emphasis on form and line. By the late 1940s O’Keeffe was one of the best-known and original artists in America. An admirer once commented that she was like “the unflickering flame of a candle, steady, serene, softly brilliant,” adding that she “faces the world unconcernedly ‘as is.’”

Credit Line

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Arnold Newman

1968

Object number

NPG.91.89.51

Restrictions & Rights

Usage conditions apply

Copyright

© Arnold Newman

Type

Photograph

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image: 57.6 x 38.6cm (22 11/16 x 15 3/16")

Sheet: 60.4 x 50.3cm (23 3/4 x 19 13/16")

Mat: 91.4 x 66cm (36 x 26")

Place

United States\New Mexico

National Portrait Gallery

Topic

Nature & Environment\Clouds

Exterior\Landscape

Artist's Effects\Canvas

Artist's Effects\Easel

Nature & Environment\Bone\Skull

Nature & Environment\Mountain

Georgia O'Keeffe: Female

Georgia O'Keeffe: Literature\Writer

Georgia O'Keeffe: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter

Georgia O'Keeffe: Visual Arts\Art Instructor

Georgia O'Keeffe: Presidential Medal of Freedom

Portrait

Record ID

npg_NPG.91.89.51

Usage of Metadata (Object Detail Text)

Usage conditions apply

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm41ae2b2d9-631f-4a7e-92f5-7220cdb94a48