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Georgia O'keeffe - 125Th Birthday

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Today is Georgia O'Keeffe's 125th Birthday - in addition to thus to celebrate here's a Pandora's box - all close Georgia.  If yous similar her operate I'd propose yous produce non opened upwards until yous own got some fourth dimension on your hands!

d propose yous produce non opened upwards until yous own got some fourth dimension on your hands Georgia O'Keeffe - 125th Birthday
"Hands" past times Alfred Stieglitz [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

All About Georgia

Her Estate keeps really careful command of her images in addition to thus I own got none to transportation service here.

However I do own got a lot of licensed images on my website About Georgia O'Keeffe - American Painter

Below is the tabular array of contents of what this site covers - in addition to there's a LOT below each of these headings.  I've been edifice in addition to improving this website always since my 2007 projection to query her work!

I love this quotation of what Georgia had to say to those people who developed their ain ideas close what her blossom paintings were about.
Nobody sees a flower, really, it is in addition to thus small. We haven't fourth dimension - in addition to to encounter takes fourth dimension similar to own got a friend takes time.

If I could pigment the blossom precisely equally I encounter it no 1 would encounter what I encounter because I would pigment it pocket-sized similar the blossom is small.

So I said to myself - I'll pigment what I encounter - what the blossom is to me just I'll pigment it large in addition to they volition live on surprised into taking fourth dimension to expect at it - I volition brand fifty-fifty busy New Yorkers own got fourth dimension to encounter what I encounter of flowers.

...Well, I made yous own got fourth dimension to expect at what I saw in addition to when yous took fourth dimension to actually uncovering my blossom yous hung all your ain associations alongside flowers on my blossom in addition to yous write close my blossom equally if I mean value in addition to encounter what yous mean value in addition to encounter of the blossom - in addition to I don't.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Here's an Architectural Digest slideshow of photos of her dwelling family at Abiquiu inwards novel Mexico.

And here's a video of Georgia O'Keeffe talking close her work



Georgia O'Keeffe was born on xv Nov 1887 inwards a farmhouse close Dominicus Prairie, Wisconsin. 

She died, historic menses 98 inwards Santa iron on March 6, 1986. Her ashes were taken upwards to the overstep of the Pedernal in addition to equally they were scattered to the current of air she returned to her dear "faraway".

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