Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Red & Orange Streak, 1919
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Red & Orange Streak, 1919
"I work in a queer sort of unconscious way," she once wrote, "more feeling than brain." The American painter Charles Demuth once said of her work, "Each color almost regains the fun it must have felt within itself when it formed the first rainbow."

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