Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia / Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artist Rights Society
Black Door with Red, 1954
In this picture painted the year she turned 67, O'Keeffe radically distills the image of a doorway in an adobe dwelling to produce a painting that appears to respond to the Color Field painting of younger artists like Barnett Newman and looks ahead to the minimalism of the early 1960s.
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