1937, Georgia O'Keeffe, From the Faraway, Nearby -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: O'Keeffe's fascination with animal bones was a key component of her personal and public association with the southwestern United States, particularly New Mexico, where she began visiting for prolonged periods in 1929. From the Faraway, Nearby features a mule deer skull and antlers levitating magically over a generalized desert landscape. Closer inspection reveals two sets of antlers, resulting in a profusion of writhing horns that nearly fills the composition. O'Keeffe omitted any suggestion of a conventional middle ground. Instead, she chose to emphasize a gulf of imagined space between the distant landscape and the deer bones that confront the viewer—a juxtaposition referenced in the painting's title.
1937, Georgia O'Keeffe, From the Faraway, Nearby -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: O'Keeffe's fascination with animal bones was a key component of her personal and public association with the southwestern United States, particularly New Mexico, where she began visiting for prolonged periods in 1929. From the Faraway, Nearby features a mule deer skull and antlers levitating magically over a generalized desert landscape. Closer inspection reveals two sets of antlers, resulting in a profusion of writhing horns that nearly fills the composition. O'Keeffe omitted any suggestion of a conventional middle ground. Instead, she chose to emphasize a gulf of imagined space between the distant landscape and the deer bones that confront the viewer—a juxtaposition referenced in the painting's title.