Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1938
Georgia O'Keeffe, portretGeorgia O'KeeffeVerenigde Staten, 1887–1986

Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth

1938 · Painting

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Waar is „Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth” nu? Collectie: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Nu niet te zien. Gecontroleerd 29 september 2026.

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Georgia O’Keeffe was fascinated by the animal bones, weathered and worn, that she found in the desert in New Mexico. In Red and Pink Rocks and Teeth she presented a jawbone alongside two stacked rocks that appear both monumental and indeterminate. The smooth, rounded forms of the red and pink rocks appear in enigmatic relation to one another, as the red pebble appears to recede from the picture plane even though it must be perched on top of the pink stone. Their abstracted forms and warm colors contrast sharply with the bleached, angular teeth and hard, cracked appearance of the jawbone and together construct a modern trompe l’oeil that questions the nature of representation and perception.

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1955.1223

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In het leven van Georgia O'Keeffe

Het hele leven
  1. 1929–1983 · Werkzaam in

    New Mexico

  2. 1937

    Stieglitz gives up photography

    When Stieglitz retired from photography in 1937 he had made more than 350 portraits of O’Keeffe and more than 200 nude photographs of her.

  3. 1938

    Advertising commission from the Hawaiian Pineapple Company

    The agency N. W. Ayer & Son asked her for two paintings for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now Dole) to use in advertising. The offer came when she was 51 and her career seemed to be stalling: critics found her New Mexico focus limited and called her desert images a kind of mass production.

  4. 8 February 1939

    Nine weeks in Hawaii

    On 8 February 1939 she arrived in Honolulu aboard the SS Lurline and spent nine weeks on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the island of Hawaii. Maui was by far the most productive stop: there she was given complete freedom to explore and paint — flowers, landscapes and traditional Hawaiian fishhooks.

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