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Hear the story of Georgia O'Keeffe's "New Yorks" from curators Sarah Kelly Oehler and Annelise K. Madsen—these early career paintings reveal the artist's perspective on the city's rapidly changing landscape through the 1920s and are essential to the ambitious and wide-ranging aesthetic for which she's remembered. As O'Keeffe herself put it, “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
Learn more about "Georgia O'Keeffe: 'My New Yorks'" on our website:
https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9539/georgia-o-keeffe-my-new-yorks
Thumbnail Credit: Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1930. copy print. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. [2006.6.934]
Hear the story of Georgia O'Keeffe's "New Yorks" from curators Sarah Kelly Oehler and Annelise K. Madsen—these early career paintings reveal the artist's perspective on the city's rapidly changing landscape through the 1920s and are essential to the ambitious and wide-ranging aesthetic for which she's remembered. As O'Keeffe herself put it, “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
Learn more about "Georgia O'Keeffe: 'My New Yorks'" on our website:
https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/9539/georgia-o-keeffe-my-new-yorks
Thumbnail Credit: Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1930. copy print. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. [2006.6.934]
