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Georgia O'Keeffe Circling Around Abstraction
By Jonathan Stuhlman and Barbara Buhler Lynes
One of America's most innovative and popular artists, Georgia O'Keeffe is rightfully celebrated as a pioneer who worked in her own style and on her own terms. Perhaps O'Keeffe's most significant contribution to art history was her unique approach to abstraction. This vibrant publication examines for the first time an overlooked aspect of O'Keeffe's work, focusing specifically on her distinctive use of circular forms as an abstract motif. Tracing O'Keeffe's experimentation with circular forms across her entire career from the hypnotic swirls of her breakthrough charcoal abstractions of the 1910s, the carefully constructed still lifes of the 1920s, the penetrating close-ups of subjects from the natural world in the 1930s, to the haunting voids of her pelvis series of the 1940s, it concludes with a selection of rarely seen late paintings in which she literally "circled back" to forms found in her early work. Jonathan Stuhlman is the exhibition curator (formerly the Anne and Harold Berkley Smith curator of American art at Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida). Barbara Buhler Lynes is the curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and the Emily Fisher Landau director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico. RELATED LINKS
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