Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has long been celebrated for her paintings, photographs, & contributions to American modernism in the 1930s & early 1940s, yet her work from the end of World War II through the early 1980s has been largely neglected. In this study, Randall C. Griffin focuses on the major pictorial series that O'Keeffe produced throughout her later career - mysterious abstract depictions of her house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, & its surrounding landscape; voluptuous aerial representations of rivers, skies, & canyons in Arizona; Buddhist-informed depictions of clouds; & daring & enigmatic portrayals of the Washington Monument. Drawing from previously overlooked photographs, letters, objects, & paintings, Griffin reveals how these works reflect O'Keeffe's evolving artistic interests & ambitions while also engaging with contemporary issues such as race, class, gender, indigeneity, & ecology.