Sunflower Georgia O Keeffe Flower Paintings

The painting red canna from 1924 is part of this series.

Sunflower georgia o keeffe flower paintings. Close up flowers a signature motif are so magnified that the petals and blooms become abstracted into sweeping shapes and swaths of color. Many of o keeffe s works featured images of flowers. Over the course of her career she created somewhere around 200 images of flowers. Light iris by georgia o keeffe.

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. Private collection and returned to the subject two years later. Jimson weed by georgia o keeffe.

She featured them in a pair of canvases in 1935 cleveland museum of art. See more ideas about georgia okeefe georgia o keeffe flower painting. A sunflower from maggie 1937 is pictured here and is perhaps the most famous of all o keeffe s sunflower paintings. 1 by georgia o keeffe.

She made about 200 paintings of flowers of the more than 2 000 paintings that she made over her career. Nov 15 2016 explore sinde cheung s board o keefe flower painting followed by 221 people on pinterest. Selected georgia o keeffe paintings. O keeffe did not paint an extensive series of sunflowers.

Many speculated that these images referenced female genitals and sexuality an idea that seemed to be fuelled by controversial images that o. In o keeffe s red cannapainting series she focuses on close up images of the interior view of flowers. Georgia o keeffe has produced a number of paintings of the canna lily plant primarily abstractions of close up images. 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.

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. Poppy by georgia o keeffe. Abstraction white rose by georgia o keeffe.

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. Jimson weed white flower no.