Georgia O'Keefe

Good essay, well written and organized well

It had good information so that even if you had never heard of O'keefe before, you could still understand the essay. It might be better if you described some of her paintings so that people who haven't seen then could get a feel of what they're like. Overall it was a well organized, informative essay.

Quite a good essay, it had some useful information and is quite helpful for my study on this artist

This is a well organized essay and a good overview of O'Keefe's life and accomplishments. There were other women artists working at the same time as her and it would be ineresting to discuss what made O'Keefe so popular and what kept the other's out of the spot light. Also it would be interesting to read what some of the critics wrote about her work at the time it was made.

This is a good essay but it can use some work.

I am actually doing some research on that painter in my art class. I found her amazing. Thanks for all the information you gave me. I just ain't sure yet on how she became so popular.

O'Keeffe is best known for her large paintings of desert flowers, sun-bleached animal skulls, and New Mexico landscapes. On her first visit in 1929, she fell in love with the stark beauty of the New Mexican desert, and moved there in 1949. In her paintings she typically presented single blossoms or objects such as a cow's skull in close-up views. Although O'Keeffe handled her subject matter representationally, the starkly linear quality, the thin, clear coloring, and the boldly patterned compositions produce abstract designs. A number of her works have an abstracted effect, the flower paintings in particular—such as Black Iris (1926, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)—in which the details of the flower are so enlarged that they become unfamiliar and surprising.


In the 1960s, inspired by a series of airplane flights, O'Keeffe introduced motifs of sky and clouds, as seen from the air, into her paintings. One of her largest works is the mural Sky Above Clouds IV (1965, Art Institute of Chicago), which is 2.4 m (8 ft) tall by 7.3 m (24 ft) wide. O'Keeffe's paintings hang in museums throughout the United States. In 1997 the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum opened in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with the world's largest public collection of works by O'Keeffe.