Georgia O'KeeffeStati Uniti, 1887–1986City Night
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis, Stati Uniti
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About the painting
Georgia O‘Keeffe produced more than twenty scenes of New York City between 1925 and 1930. Here, the power and presence of the modern era are epitomized in the city’s thrusting architecture. During the first half of the 1900s, skyscrapers came to exemplify U.S. ingenuity. O’Keeffe reduced these immense buildings to simple geometric forms that converge in the upper reaches of the dark canvas, towering even above the moon. She places the viewer between these architectural giants. We might feel small in their midst, forced to crane our necks skyward to take it all in, or we might marvel at the staggering feats of engineering that soar above our heads. The brightly glowing moon offers a round contrast to the super-straight lines of the city.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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- 80.28
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- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · acquisita 7 giorni fa
- Immagine: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Nel frattempo, nella vita di Georgia O'Keeffe
Tutta la vita1924
A show beside Stieglitz’s photographs
Stieglitz arranged a show of O’Keeffe’s works alongside his own photographs at the Anderson Galleries and in the following years helped to organise other exhibitions of her work.
11 dicembre 1924
Married: Alfred Stieglitz
1927
Retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum held a retrospective of her work.
1928
Stir over the sale of six calla lily paintings for $25,000
Stieglitz announced that six of her calla lily paintings had been sold to an anonymous buyer in France for $25,000; there is no evidence the transaction went as he reported. The publicity worked: from then on her paintings sold for higher prices, and within a decade of her move to New York she was the highest-paid American woman artist.
1928
Stieglitz begins an affair with Dorothy Norman
O’Keeffe and Stieglitz had an open relationship, and his affairs could be painful for her. In 1928 he began a long-term affair with Dorothy Norman, who was also married.
