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Georgia O’Keeffe | |||
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1887 in Sun Prairie, WI Died 1986 in Santa Fe, NM |
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| Maple and Cedar, Lake George, 1922 | ||||
| oil
paint on canvas 25 x 20 inches Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald P. Peters 2000.17 |
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| O'Keeffe is celebrated as
one of the great American modernists and a visionary of the American Southwest,
the land with which she is often associated (though it was not until 1929
that she first visited New Mexico, and 1949 that she moved there). Maple
and Cedar, Lake George dates from an earlier time period when O'Keeffe
was based in New York and married to photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz.
In this work, she crystallizes in simplified form the beauty and majesty
of nature, painting Maple and Cedar, Lake George during visits
to Lake George in upstate New York where Stieglitz had a home. On the back
of Maple and Cedar, Lake George is a painting by her father-in-law,
Edward Stieglitz. |
