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O’Keeffe decided as a child that she was going to be an artist when she grew up. Although she was unsure of what kind of art she would make, she later recalled, “I hadn’t a desire to make anything like the pictures I had seen.” Indeed, O’Keeffe’s long career was marked by ceaseless invention for which she received near constant acclaim, starting with her earliest paintings, which debuted in 1916 at New York’s famous 291 gallery, and continuing until her death, seven decades later, in 1986. In 1946 O’Keeffe was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art’s first retrospective exhibition devoted to a woman artist.

Although O’Keeffe is best known for figurative paintings of flowers, skulls, and the d...

1927
Oil on canvas
102.1 x 76.0cm
71.1979
Image © 2019 The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Text © MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York

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The Museum of Modern Art
Permanent collection