Sunflower Georgia O Keeffe Flower Paintings

The georgia o keeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artist s death.

Sunflower georgia o keeffe flower paintings.

Poppy by georgia o keeffe. A sunflower from maggie 1937 is pictured here and is perhaps the most famous of all o keeffe s sunflower paintings. Guaranteed lowest price fast shipping free returns and custom framing options on all prints. Selected georgia o keeffe paintings.

Jimson weed white flower no. O keeffe did not paint an extensive series of sunflowers. One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 44 4 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artist s work as of 2014. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers.

She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career. The painting red canna from 1924 is part of this series. Many speculated that these images referenced female genitals and sexuality an idea that seemed to be fuelled by controversial images that o. Grey lines with black blue and yellow by georgia o keeffe.

She featured them in a pair of canvases in 1935 cleveland museum of art. Light iris by georgia o keeffe. Widely considered one of the greatest 20th century american artists painter georgia o keeffe created serene works to reflect the world around her. In a sunflower for maggie georgia o keeffe used a light background colour which is carefully repeated in the petals and helps to firmly contrast against the flower.

Jimson weed by georgia o keeffe. 1 by georgia o keeffe. See more ideas about georgia okeefe georgia o keeffe flower painting. Nov 15 2016 explore sinde cheung s board o keefe flower painting followed by 221 people on pinterest.

Close up flowers a signature motif are so magnified that the petals and blooms become abstracted into sweeping shapes and swaths of color. The artist explained that she wanted to reflect the way she saw these flowers expressing herself through the use of vibrant colors like red yellow and orange. Many of o keeffe s works featured images of flowers. The american artist georgia o keeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s.

Georgia o keeffe has produced a number of paintings of the canna lily plant primarily abstractions of close up images. Of some two dozen canvases she painted in 1937 six were flowers including hollyhocks amaryllis and this sunflower.