Sunflower Georgia O Keeffe Flower Paintings

She featured them in a pair of canvases in 1935 cleveland museum of art.

Sunflower georgia o keeffe flower paintings.

The american artist georgia o keeffe is best known for her close up or large scale flower paintings which she painted from the mid 1920s through the 1950s. In o keeffe s red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of flowers. O keeffe did not paint an extensive series of sunflowers. Private collection and returned to the subject two years later.

One of her paintings jimson weed sold for 44 4 million making it the most expensive painting sold of a female artist s work as of 2014. Of some two dozen canvases she painted in 1937 six were flowers including hollyhocks amaryllis and this sunflower. The artist explained that she wanted to reflect the way she saw these flowers expressing herself through the use of vibrant colors like red yellow and orange. See more ideas about georgia okeefe georgia o keeffe flower painting.

Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. Selected georgia o keeffe paintings. Many of o keeffe s works featured images of flowers. The georgia o keeffe museum was established in santa fe in 1997 11 years after the artist s death.

Many speculated that these images referenced female genitals and sexuality an idea that seemed to be fuelled by controversial images that o. Georgia o keeffe has produced a number of paintings of the canna lily plant primarily abstractions of close up images. The painting red canna from 1924 is part of this series. A sunflower from maggie 1937 is pictured here and is perhaps the most famous of all o keeffe s sunflower paintings.

Guaranteed lowest price fast shipping free returns and custom framing options on all prints. In a sunflower for maggie georgia o keeffe used a light background colour which is carefully repeated in the petals and helps to firmly contrast against the flower. Jimson weed by georgia o keeffe. Grey lines with black blue and yellow by georgia o keeffe.

Widely considered one of the greatest 20th century american artists painter georgia o keeffe created serene works to reflect the world around her. Close up flowers a signature motif are so magnified that the petals and blooms become abstracted into sweeping shapes and swaths of color. Light iris by georgia o keeffe. Nov 15 2016 explore sinde cheung s board o keefe flower painting followed by 221 people on pinterest.

She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career. Jimson weed white flower no.