Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Georgia O'Keefe in 1918

During her lifetime Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the most popular American painters, famous especially for her spare
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

O'Keeffe in 1918
During her lifetime Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the most popular American painters, famous especially for her spare scenes of New Mexico, where she settled permanently in 1949. A new show at the Whitney Museum of Art focuses on her lifelong interest in abstraction, a format she first arrived at in 1915, very early in its history.

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