77-663: Yasuo Kuniyoshi ( 国吉 康雄 , Kuniyoshi Yasuo , September 1, 1889 – May 14, 1953) was a Japanese-American painter, photographer and printmaker. Kuniyoshi was born on September 1, 1889, in Okayama , Japan. He immigrated to the United States in 1906 at 17, choosing not to attend military school in Japan. Kuniyoshi originally intended to study English and return to Japan to work as a translator. He spent some time in Seattle , before enrolling at
154-591: A business making rusticated cast concrete block in anticipation of a demand for the block in the Virginia Peninsula building trade, but the demand never materialized. O'Keeffe stayed in Wisconsin attending Madison Central High School until joining her family in Virginia in 1903. She completed high school as a boarder at Chatham Episcopal Institute in Virginia (now Chatham Hall ), graduating in 1905. At Chatham, she
231-404: A caretaker. Hamilton was a potter. Hamilton taught O'Keeffe to work with clay, encouraged her to resume painting despite her deteriorating eyesight, and helped her write her autobiography. He worked for her for 13 years. The artist's autobiography, Georgia O'Keeffe , published in 1976 by Viking Press , featured Summer Days (1936) on the cover. It became a bestseller. During the 1970s, she made
308-567: A critical time in O'Keeffe's life: she was 51, and her career seemed to be stalling (critics were calling her focus on New Mexico limited, and branding her desert images "a kind of mass production"). She arrived in Honolulu on February 8, 1939, aboard the SS Lurline and spent nine weeks in Oahu , Maui , Kauai , and the island of Hawaii . By far the most productive and vivid period was on Maui, where she
385-637: A desert scene with a deer skull with vibrant wildflowers. Resembling Ram's Head with Hollyhock , it depicted the skull floating above the horizon. In 1938, the advertising agency N. W. Ayer & Son approached O'Keeffe about creating two paintings for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (now Dole Food Company ) to use in advertising. Other artists who produced paintings of Hawaii for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company's advertising include Lloyd Sexton, Jr. , Millard Sheets , Yasuo Kuniyoshi , Isamu Noguchi , and Miguel Covarrubias . The offer came at
462-518: A fondness for intense and nocturnal colors. Building upon a practice she began in South Carolina, O'Keeffe painted to express her most private sensations and feelings. Rather than sketching out a design before painting, she freely created designs. O'Keeffe continued to experiment until she believed she truly captured her feelings in the watercolor, Light Coming on the Plains No. I (1917). She began
539-477: A home and studio. She moved permanently to New Mexico in 1949, spending time at both Ghost Ranch and the Abiquiú house that she made into her studio. Todd Webb , a photographer she met in the 1940s, moved to New Mexico in 1961. He often made photographs of her, as did numerous other important American photographers, who consistently presented O'Keeffe as a "loner, a severe figure and self-made person." While O'Keeffe
616-451: A loner, O'Keeffe often explored the land she loved in her Ford Model A , which she purchased and learned to drive in 1929. She often talked about her fondness for Ghost Ranch and northern New Mexico, as in 1943, when she explained, "Such a beautiful, untouched lonely feeling place, such a fine part of what I call the 'Faraway'. It is a place I have painted before ... even now I must do it again." O'Keeffe did not work from late 1932 until about
693-550: A long-term affair with Dorothy Norman , who was also married, and O'Keeffe lost a project to create a mural for Radio City Music Hall . She was hospitalized for depression . At the suggestion of Maria Chabot and Mabel Dodge Luhan , O'Keeffe began to spend the summers painting in New Mexico in 1929. She traveled by train with her friend the painter Rebecca Strand, Paul Strand 's wife, to Taos, where they lived with their patron who provided them with studios . In 1933, O'Keeffe
770-433: A morphological metaphor for a vulva. Art dealer Samuel Kootz was one of O'Keeffe's critics who, although considering her to be "the only prominent woman artist" (in the words of Marilyn Hall Mitchell), considered sexual expression in her work (and other artists' work) artistically problematic. Kootz stated that "assertion of sex can only impede the talents of an artist, for it is an act of defiance, of grievance, in which
847-590: A painting but eventually stopped using her after about a week or so, and then would continue on from his memory, making adjustments as he saw fit. This desire to paint the ideal perfection of a subject was favored in Japanese art, whereas in Western traditions the painting is typically informed by the real object throughout the entire painting process. He married his first wife Katherine Schmidt , who in 1919 lost her American citizenship due to her relationship with Kuniyoshi who
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#1732859442657924-401: A residence, and place for her to paint. They developed a close personal relationship, and later married, while he promoted her work. Stieglitz also discouraged her use of watercolor, which was associated with amateur women artists. According to art historian Charles Eldredge, "the couple enjoyed a prominent position in the ebullient art of New York throughout the 1920s". O'Keeffe came to know
1001-574: A retrospective exhibition at the Anderson Galleries. Stieglitz started photographing O'Keeffe when she visited him in New York City to see her 1917 exhibition, and continued taking photographs, many of which were in the nude. It created a public sensation. When he retired from photography in 1937, he had made more than 350 portraits and more than 200 nude photos of her. In 1978, she wrote about how distant from them she had become, "When I look over
1078-571: A sense of awe and emotional intensity. In 1924, Stieglitz arranged a show displaying O'Keeffe's works of art alongside his photographs at Anderson Galleries and helped to organize other exhibitions over the next several years. After having moved into a 30th floor apartment in the Shelton Hotel in 1925, O'Keeffe began a series of paintings of the New York skyscrapers and skyline. One of her most notable works, which demonstrates her skill at depicting
1155-516: A series of cloudscapes inspired by her views from airplane windows. Worcester Art Museum held a retrospective of her work in 1960 and 10 years later, the Whitney Museum of American Art mounted the Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective Exhibition . Beginning in 1946, O'Keefe worked with the painting conservator Caroline Keck to preserve the visual impression of her paintings. O'Keefe's stated preference
1232-626: A series of photographs of natural forms, cloud studies (a series known as Equivalents ), and portraits of O'Keeffe. Prior to her marriage to Stieglitz, O'Keeffe's drawings and paintings were frequently abstract, although she began to expand her visual vocabulary from 1924 onward to include more representational imagery "usually taken from nature and often painted in series". O'Keeffe began creating simplified images of natural things, such as leaves, flowers, and rocks. Inspired by Precisionism , The Green Apple , completed in 1922, depicts her notion of simple, meaningful life. O'Keeffe said that year, "it
1309-561: A series of watercolor paintings based upon the scenery and expansive views during her walks, including vibrant paintings of Palo Duro Canyon . She "captured a monumental landscape in this simple configuration, fusing blue and green pigments in almost indistinct tonal gradations that simulate the pulsating effect of light on the horizon of the Texas Panhandle," according to author Sharyn Rohlfsen Udall. In 1918, O'Keeffe moved to New York as Stieglitz offered to provide financial support,
1386-425: A series of works in watercolor. She continued working in pencil and charcoal until 1984. O'Keeffe became increasingly frail in her late nineties. She moved to Santa Fe in 1984, where she died on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98. Her body was cremated and her ashes were scattered, as she wished, on the land around Ghost Ranch. Following O'Keeffe's death, her family contested her will because codicils added to it in
1463-436: A sexual manner. O'Keeffe, most famous for her depiction of flowers, made about 200 flower paintings , which by the mid-1920s were large-scale depictions of flowers, as if seen through a magnifying lens, such as Oriental Poppies and several Red Canna paintings. She painted her first large-scale flower painting, Petunia, No. 2 , in 1924 and it was first exhibited in 1925. Making magnified depictions of objects created
1540-508: A source of inspiration for her work. The Brooklyn Museum held a retrospective of her work in 1927. In 1928, Stieglitz announced that six of her calla lily paintings sold to an anonymous buyer in France for US$ 25,000, but there is no evidence that this transaction occurred the way Stieglitz reported. As a result of the press attention, O'Keeffe's paintings sold at a higher price from that point onward. By 1929, she traveled to Santa Fe for
1617-535: A time, returning to New York each winter to exhibit her work at Stieglitz's gallery . O'Keeffe went on many pack trips , exploring the rugged mountains and deserts of the region that summer and later visited the nearby D. H. Lawrence Ranch , where she completed her now famous oil painting, The Lawrence Tree , currently owned by the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford , Connecticut . O'Keeffe visited and painted
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#17328594426571694-439: Is a Japanese mode of thinking about painting. Instead of painting from life, as in Western painting, traditional Japanese painters typically paint their ideal image of a particular subject. Kuniyoshi combined this with Western painting in the way he applies the bold colors in oil on canvas; in Japan, traditional painters use ink on either silk or rice paper. These early paintings are the precursors to his mature style that we see in
1771-449: Is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things." Blue and Green Music expresses O'Keeffe's feelings about music through visual art, using bold and subtle colors. Also in 1922, journalist Paul Rosenfeld commented "[the] Essence of very womanhood permeates her pictures", citing her use of color and shapes as metaphors for the female body. This same article also describes her paintings in
1848-802: The Red Canna paintings, that many found to represent vulvas, though O'Keeffe consistently denied that intention. The imputation of the depiction of women's sexuality was also fueled by explicit and sensuous photographs of O'Keeffe that Stieglitz had taken and exhibited. O'Keeffe and Stieglitz lived together in New York until 1929, when O'Keeffe began spending part of the year in the Southwest, which served as inspiration for her paintings of New Mexico landscapes and images of animal skulls, such as Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue (1931) and Summer Days (1936) . After Stieglitz's death in 1946, she lived in New Mexico for
1925-645: The American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Among her awards and honors, O'Keeffe received the M. Carey Thomas Award at Bryn Mawr College in 1971 and two years later received an honorary degree from Harvard University . In 1977, President Gerald Ford presented O'Keeffe with the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the highest honor awarded to American civilians. In 1985, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Ronald Reagan . In 1993, she
2002-605: The American modernism movement. She taught at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina in late 1915, where she completed a series of highly innovative charcoal abstractions based on her personal sensations. In early 1916, O'Keeffe was in New York at Teachers College, Columbia University. She mailed the charcoal drawings to a friend and former classmate at Teachers College, Anita Pollitzer, who took them to Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 gallery early in 1916. Stieglitz found them to be
2079-750: The Los Angeles School of Art and Design . Kuniyoshi spent three years in Los Angeles, discovering his love for the arts. He then moved to New York City to pursue an art career. Kuniyoshi studied briefly at the National Academy and later at the Independent School of Art in New York City, and then studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York . He later taught at
2156-509: The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Manhattan. The Whitney Museum began an effort to create the first catalogue of her work in the mid-1940s. By 1972, O'Keeffe had lost much of her eyesight due to macular degeneration , leaving her with only peripheral vision . She stopped oil painting without assistance in 1972. In 1973, O'Keeffe hired John Bruce "Juan" Hamilton as a live-in assistant and then
2233-682: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago , until about 1920, she studied art or earned money as a commercial illustrator or a teacher to pay for further education. Influenced by Arthur Wesley Dow , O'Keeffe began to develop her unique style beginning with her watercolors from her studies at the University of Virginia and more dramatically in the charcoal drawings that she produced in 1915 that led to total abstraction. Alfred Stieglitz , an art dealer and photographer, held an exhibit of her works in 1917. Over
2310-587: The Whitney Museum of American Art . His work may also be found in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Kuniyoshi also exhibited at the 1952 Venice Biennale . Kenneth Hayes Miller introduced Kuniyoshi to intaglio printmaking ; he made approximately 45 such prints between 1916 and 1918. One of Kuniyoshi's more popular Intaglio prints is Bust of a Woman, Head Inclined to
2387-474: The measles and later moved with her family to Charlottesville, Virginia . She did not paint for four years and said that the smell of turpentine made her ill. She began teaching art in 1911. One of her positions was at her former school, Chatham Episcopal Institute, in Virginia. She took a summer art class in 1912 at the University of Virginia from Alon Bement , who was a Columbia University Teachers College faculty member. Under Bement, she learned of
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2464-500: The "White Place", a white rock formation located near her Abiquiú house. In 1946, she began making the architectural forms of her Abiquiú house—the patio wall and door—subjects in her work. It was in this period that O'Keefe also worked seriously with photography, providing striking counterparts to her patio and door paintings. Another distinctive painting was Ladder to the Moon , 1958. In the mid-1960s, O'Keeffe produced Sky Above Clouds ,
2541-509: The "purest, finest, sincerest things that had entered 291 in a long while" and said that he would like to show them. In April that year, Stieglitz exhibited ten of her drawings at 291. After further course work at Columbia in early 1916 and summer teaching for Bement, she became the chair of the art department at West Texas State Normal College , in Canyon, Texas , beginning in the fall of 1916. O'Keeffe, who enjoyed sunrises and sunsets, developed
2618-403: The 1920s, Kuniyoshi painted images that were more angular, somewhat Cubist in style and with a tilted plane that allowed him to paint the most detail for each object in his paintings. Kuniyoshi's application of Cubism's angularity can be seen in his painting titled Little Joe with Cow (1923). In these early paintings, Kuniyoshi was painting from a combination of his memory and imagination, which
2695-558: The 1930s. In 1925, Kuniyoshi painted his Circus Girl Resting , after a visit to Paris. He painted a provocative woman of larger proportions, similar to Strong Woman and Child . This painting was purchased and included in the Advancing American Art Exhibition by the US Department of State alongside other well-known modern artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper . Due to that era's aversion to modern art,
2772-506: The 1980s had left most of her $ 65 million estate to Hamilton. The case was ultimately settled out of court in July 1987. The case became a famous precedent in estate planning . In 1938, O'Keeffe received an honorary degree of "Doctor of Fine Arts" from the College of William & Mary . Later, O'Keeffe was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1966 was elected a Fellow of
2849-697: The Art Students League of New York in New York City and in Woodstock, New York . Nan Lurie was among his students, as was Irene Krugman and Faith Ringgold . Around 1930, the artist built a home and studio on Ohayo Mountain Road in Woodstock. He was an active member of the artistic community there for the rest of his life. One of his pupils from the League, Anne Helioff , would go on to work with him at Woodstock. Kuniyoshi
2926-466: The League's William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her oil painting Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot . Her prize was a scholarship to attend the League's outdoor summer school in Lake George , New York. While in New York City, O'Keeffe visited galleries, such as 291 , co-owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The gallery promoted the work of avant-garde artists and photographers from
3003-581: The Right, which can be found in the collections of both The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art . In 1922, Kuniyoshi learned about zinc plate lithography and adopted the technique. Kuniyoshi continued making lithographs throughout the remainder of his artistic career. Kuniyoshi was also known for his still-life paintings of common objects, and figurative subjects like female circus performers and nudes. Throughout Kuniyoshi's career he had frequent changes in his technique and subject matter. In
3080-464: The Stieglitz family summer estate in Lake George in upstate New York, "they were like two teenagers in love. Several times a day they would run up the stairs to their bedroom, so eager to make love that they would start taking their clothes off as they ran." Also around this time, O'Keeffe became sick during the 1918 flu pandemic . In February 1921, Stieglitz's photographs of O'Keeffe were included in
3157-501: The United States and Europe. In 1908, O'Keeffe discovered that she would not be able to finance her studies. Her father had gone bankrupt and her mother was seriously ill with tuberculosis . She was not interested in a career as a painter based on the mimetic tradition that had formed the basis of her art training. She took a job in Chicago as a commercial artist and worked there until 1910, when she returned to Virginia to recuperate from
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3234-841: The buildings in the Precisionist style, is the Radiator Building–Night, New York . Other examples are New York Street with Moon (1925), The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y. (1926), and City Night (1926). She made a cityscape, East River from the Thirtieth Story of the Shelton Hotel in 1928, a painting of her view of the East River and smoke-emitting factories in Queens. The next year she made her final New York City skyline and skyscraper paintings and traveled to New Mexico, which became
3311-502: The consciousness of these qualities retards the natural assertions of the painter". O'Keeffe stood her ground against sexual interpretations of her work, and for fifty years maintained that there was no connection between vulvas and her artwork. Firing back against some of the criticism, O'Keeffe stated, "When people read erotic symbols into my paintings, they're really talking about their own affairs." She attributed other artists' attacks on her work to psychological projection . O'Keeffe
3388-450: The cow painting are gone in his painting of the woman, but the soft line work and bold use of colors are apparent in both images. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics . Kuniyoshi's "Artificial Flowers and Other Things" appeared in the Whitney Museum 's "Second Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," which ran from November 27, 1934, to January 10, 1935, and included
3465-809: The early 1950s, Kuniyoshi contracted cancer, and ended his art career with a series of black-and-white drawings using sumi-e ink. He died on May 14, 1953, aged 63 and is interred at the Woodstock Artists Cemetery in Woodstock, New York. Japanese-American Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 766978996 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:50:42 GMT Georgia O%27Keeffe Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986)
3542-543: The exhibition was closed down. Kuniyoshi's Circus Girl Resting received harsh criticism from President Harry Truman because of its exotic proportions, not because of its provocative nature. In the 1930s Kuniyoshi switched from painting from memory to painting from life. This change occurred after his two trips to Europe in 1925 and 1928, where he was exposed to French modern art. In 1928, Goodrich notes, Kuniyoshi spent most of his time in Paris with his friend Jules Pascin , and it
3619-682: The first time, accompanied by her friend Rebecca (Beck) Strand and stayed in Taos with Mabel Dodge Luhan , who provided the women with studios. From her room she had a clear view of the Taos Mountains as well as the morada (meetinghouse) of the Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno , also known as the Penitentes . She subsequently visited New Mexico on a near-annual basis from 1929 onward, often staying there for several months at
3696-513: The innovative ideas of Arthur Wesley Dow , Bement's colleague. Dow's approach was influenced by principles of design and composition in Japanese art. She began to experiment with abstract compositions and develop a personal style that veered away from realism. From 1912 to 1914, she taught art in the public schools in Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle , and was a teaching assistant to Bement during
3773-426: The many early American modernists who were part of Stieglitz's circle of artists, including painters Charles Demuth , Arthur Dove , Marsden Hartley , John Marin , and photographers Paul Strand and Edward Steichen . Strand's photography, as well as that of Stieglitz, inspired O'Keeffe's work. Stieglitz, whose 291 Gallery closed down in 1917, was now able to spend more time on his own photographic practice, producing
3850-448: The mid-1930s due to nervous breakdowns. She was a popular artist, receiving commissions while her works were being exhibited in New York and other places. In 1933 and 1934, O'Keeffe recuperated in Bermuda and returned to New Mexico in 1934. In August 1934, she moved to Ghost Ranch, north of Abiquiú. In 1940, she moved into a house on the ranch property. The varicolored cliffs surrounding
3927-552: The most part, without the exchange of a word. Preferring avoidance to confrontation on most issues, O'Keeffe was the principal agent of collusion in their union," according to biographer Benita Eisler . They lived primarily in New York City, but spent their summers at his father's family estate, Oaklawn, in Lake George in upstate New York. O'Keeffe and Stieglitz had an open relationship, which could be painful for O'Keeffe when Stieglitz had affairs with women. In 1928, Stieglitz began
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#17328594426574004-432: The nearby historical San Francisco de Asís Mission Church at Ranchos de Taos . She made several paintings of the church, as had many artists, and her painting of a fragment of it silhouetted against the sky captured it from a unique perspective. In New Mexico, she collected rocks and bones from the desert floor and made them and the distinctive architectural and landscape forms of the area subjects in her work. Known as
4081-511: The next 40 years at her home and studio or Ghost Ranch summer home in Abiquiú , and in the last years of her life, in Santa Fe . In 2014, O'Keeffe's 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $ 44,405,000—at the time, by far the largest price paid for any painting by a female artist. Her works are in the collections of several museums, and following her death, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
4158-459: The next couple of years, she taught and continued her studies at the Teachers College, Columbia University . She moved to New York in 1918 at Stieglitz's request and began working seriously as an artist. They developed a professional and personal relationship that led to their marriage on December 11, 1924. O'Keeffe created many forms of abstract art, including close-ups of flowers, such as
4235-792: The opening of Diego Rivera 's solo exhibition at the MOMA, after which a friendship developed. They remained friends, staying in touch when O'Keeffe recuperated from a nervous breakdown in a hospital and then in Bermuda. Both women visited each other's homes on a couple of occasions in the 1950s. Among guests to visit her at the ranch over the years were Charles and Anne Lindbergh , singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell , poet Allen Ginsberg , and photographer Ansel Adams . She traveled and camped at "Black Place" often with her friend, Maria Chabot, and later with Eliot Porter . Marquette Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin
4312-500: The photographs Stieglitz took of me—some of them more than sixty years ago—I wonder who that person is. It is as if in my one life I have lived many lives." Owing to the legal delays caused by Stieglitz's first wife and her family, it would take six years before he obtained a divorce. O'Keeffe and Stieglitz were married on December 11, 1924. For the rest of their lives together, their relationship was, "a collusion....a system of deals and trade-offs, tacitly agreed to and carried out, for
4389-430: The ranch inspired some of her most famous landscapes. Between 1934 and 1936, she completed a series of landscape paintings inspired by the New Mexico desert, often with prominent depictions of animal skulls, including Ram’s Head with Hollyhock (1935) and Deer's Head with Pedernal (1936) as well as Summer Days (1936). In 1936, she completed what would become one of her best-known paintings, Summer Days . It depicts
4466-415: The summer in New Mexico in 1946, Stieglitz suffered a cerebral thrombosis (stroke). She immediately flew to New York to be with him. He died on July 13, 1946. She buried his ashes at Lake George. She spent the next three years mostly in New York settling his estate. She had a close relationship with Beck Strand. They enjoyed spending time together, traveling, and living with "glee". Strand said that she
4543-501: The summers. She took classes at the University of Virginia for two more summers. She also took a class in the spring of 1914 at Teachers College of Columbia University with Dow, who further influenced her thinking about the process of making art. Her studies at the University of Virginia, based upon Dow's principles, were pivotal in O'Keeffe's development as an artist. Through her exploration and growth as an artist, she helped to establish
4620-439: The war. From 1905 to 1906, O'Keeffe was enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , where she studied with John Vanderpoel and ranked at the top of her class. As a result of contracting typhoid fever , she had to take a year off from her education. In 1907, she attended the Art Students League in New York City, where she studied under William Merritt Chase , Kenyon Cox , and F. Luis Mora . In 1908, she won
4697-464: The work of one other Japanese-American artist, Hideo Noda . Even in his images of women where they are full-bodied and seem to have a presence in the painting, such as the woman in Daily News , Kuniyoshi did not entirely throw out painting from memory. Goodrich points out that Kuniyoshi did not work with models for the entire painting process. Rather, the artist drew from the model in the early stages of
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#17328594426574774-473: Was a member of Kappa Delta sorority. O'Keeffe taught and headed the art department at West Texas State Normal College , watching over her youngest sibling, Claudia, at her mother's request. In 1917, she visited her brother, Alexis, at a military camp in Texas before he shipped out for Europe during World War I . While there, she created the painting The Flag , which expressed her anxiety and depression about
4851-472: Was also seen as a revolutionary feminist ; however, the artist rejected these notions, stating that "femaleness is irrelevant" and that "it has nothing to do with art making or accomplishment." In June 1918, O'Keeffe accepted Stieglitz's invitation to move to New York from Texas after he promised he would provide her with a quiet studio where she could paint. Within a month he took the first of many nude photographs of her at his family's apartment while his wife
4928-480: Was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements . Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her meticulous paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapes, which were often drawn from and related to places and environments in which she lived. From 1905, when O'Keeffe began her studies at
5005-660: Was awarded the Temple Gold Medal in 1934 from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art . In 1935, Kuniyoshi was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship . He was also an Honorary member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and first president of Artists Equity Association, now known as New York Artists Equity Association . In 1948, Kuniyoshi became the first living artist chosen to have a retrospective at
5082-461: Was away. His wife returned home once while their session was still in progress. She had suspected for a while that something was going on between the two, and told him to stop seeing O'Keeffe or get out. Stieglitz left home immediately and found a place in the city where he and O'Keeffe could live together. They slept separately for more than two weeks. By the end of the month they were in the same bed together, and by mid-August when they visited Oaklawn,
5159-454: Was established in Santa Fe. Georgia O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887, in a farmhouse in the town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin . Her parents, Francis Calyxtus O'Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O'Keeffe, were dairy farmers. Her father was of Irish descent. Her mother's father, George Victor Totto, for whom O'Keeffe was named, was a Hungarian count who came to the United States in 1848. O'Keeffe
5236-471: Was for her works to be free of dirt, even if removing such soiling caused abrasion to her colors. Keck encouraged O'Keefe to begin applying acrylic varnishes to her works in order to facilitate their cleaning. During the 1940s, O'Keeffe had two one-woman retrospectives, the first at the Art Institute of Chicago (1943). Her second was in 1946, when she was the first woman artist to have a retrospective at
5313-439: Was given complete freedom to explore and paint. She painted flowers, landscapes, and traditional Hawaiian fishhooks. O'Keeffe completed a series of 20 sensual, verdant paintings based on her trip to Hawaii, however, she did not paint the requested pineapple until the Hawaiian Pineapple Company sent a plant to her New York studio. In 1945, O'Keeffe bought a second house, an abandoned hacienda in Abiquiú, which she renovated into
5390-535: Was hospitalized for two months after suffering a nervous breakdown , largely due to Stieglitz's affair with Dorothy Norman. She did not paint again until January 1934. O'Keeffe continued to visit New Mexico, without her husband, and created a new body of works based upon the desert. O'Keeffe broke free of "strict gender roles" and adopted "gender neutral" clothing, as did other professional women in Santa Fe and Taos who experienced "psychological space and sexual freedom" there. Shortly after O'Keeffe arrived for
5467-551: Was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame . O'Keeffe's lotus paintings may have deeper ties to vulvar imagery and symbolism. In Egyptian mythology, lotus flowers are a symbol of the womb, and in Indian mythology, they are direct symbols for vulvas. Feminist art historian Linda Nochlin , the author of the influential 1971 essay titled " Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? ", also interpreted Black Iris III (1926) as
5544-445: Was ineligible for American citizenship. They divorced in 1932. He later married Sara Mazo in 1935. Although viewed as an immigrant, Kuniyoshi was very patriotic and identified himself as an American. He never received his citizenship due to harsh immigration laws. During World War II, he proclaimed his loyalty and patriotism as a propaganda artist for the United States. This included a number of anti-Japanese propaganda posters. In
5621-547: Was known to have a "prickly personality," Webb's photographs portray her with a kind of "quietness and calm" suggesting a relaxed friendship, and revealing new contours of O'Keeffe's character. In the 1940s, O'Keeffe made an extensive series of paintings of what is called the "Black Place", about 150 miles (240 km) west of her Ghost Ranch house. O'Keeffe said that the Black Place resembled "a mile of elephants with gray hills and white sand at their feet." She made paintings of
5698-469: Was most herself when with O'Keeffe. In Foursome —a book about O'Keeffe, Stieglitz, and Beck and Paul Strand— Carolyn Burke argues against the notion that the women were sexually or romantically involved, finding such a reading of their correspondence incongruous with their "passionate ties to their husbands" and "strong heterosexual attractions". Frida Kahlo met O'Keeffe in December 1931 in New York City at
5775-511: Was on this later trip that Kuniyoshi realized that his art had grown stale. By switching to painting from life and incorporating perspective into his paintings, he was able to breathe life back into his images; the change in his style can be seen in Daily News (1935). In this painting it appears that the woman, who is seated in a chair, occupies space within the room depicted as opposed to appearing flat as in Little Joe with Cow . The sharp angles in
5852-489: Was renamed as Georgia O'Keeffe Middle School. In 2020, Tymberwood Academy (in Gravesend, Kent, England), pupils chose new class names. One of the winning names for a Year 3 class was Georgia O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe was a legend beginning in the 1920s, known as much for her independent spirit and female role model as for her dramatic and innovative works of art. Nancy and Jules Heller said, "The most remarkable thing about O'Keeffe
5929-663: Was the second of seven children. She attended Town Hall School in Sun Prairie. By age 10, she had decided to become an artist. With her sisters, Ida and Anita, she received art instruction from local watercolorist Sara Mann. O'Keeffe attended high school at Sacred Heart Academy in Madison, Wisconsin, as a boarder between 1901 and 1902. In late 1902, the O'Keeffes moved from Wisconsin to the close-knit neighborhood of Peacock Hill in Williamsburg, Virginia , where O'Keeffe's father started
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