Sky Above Clouds IV
1965
Oil on Canvas
243.8 x 731.5 cm
Deer's Skull with Pedernal
1936
Oil on Canvas
Yellow Calla
1926
Oil on Fiberboard
9 3/8" x 12 3/8"
Of painting in New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe once said, "Half your work is done for you." She was being modest. But when the doyenne of American Painting died in Santa Fe on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98, she had done as much to affect our perception of New Mexico as Gauguin had done for Tahiti. Always a loner, she refused to be associated with any movements or other painters: "No, no, no. I am not an exponent of Expressionism. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking, and feeling the facts and things which men know. One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt, nor can one be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, and then work." O'Keeffe often said that she wanted to live to be 100, but on her 90th birthday, after a couple of margaritas with friends at a Mexican restaurant, she upped the figure, saying she wanted to live to be 125. O'Keeffe was a woman who always wanted a lot from life, and she got nearly all of it.
Black Cross
From the Faraway Nearby
Jack In The Pulpit II
Ladder to the Moon
Series I, Number I
Waterfall
Black Place Tree
Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu
Grey Line with Black
Two Jimson Weeds
Lake George Barn
Ranchos Church
Lawrence Tree
Blue and Green Music
Cow and Skull
Black and Purple Petunias
Summer Days
Red Hills & Sun