Blue #4
1916
Georgia O'Keeffe
American, 1887-1986
American Art
In her early abstractions, O’Keeffe rendered the same soft, flowing organic forms as she did in her dress. Her rounded forms also have a kinship with the plant-form vocabularies popularized by the international Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. When Alfred Stieglitz saw her first abstractions, he is famously said to have exclaimed, “Finally, a woman on paper,” and in 1916 and again in 1917, he hung some of them in his gallery at 291 Fifth Avenue.
- Maker/Artist
- O'Keeffe, Georgia
- Classification
- Watercolor
- Formatted Medium
- Watercolor on paper
- Medium
- watercolor, paper
- Dimensions
- 15 15/16 x 10 15/16 in. (40.5 x 27.8 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 58.76
- Credit Line
- Dick S. Ramsay Fund
- Exhibitions
- Women Artists: 1550-1950, Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern, Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement, Georgia O'Keeffe: Works From The Brooklyn Museum
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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