1918, Georgia O'Keeffe, House with Tree–Red -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This pair of watercolors demonstrates how O'Keeffe experimented with variations in composition, scale, and color. In the larger, green-hued work, three small trees flank the foreground and the moon is almost fully visible, while in the smaller version with red, only two trees appear at front and the moon is half obscured. Such trials reflect the influence of educator Arthur Wesley Dow, whose courses O'Keeffe took at Columbia University's Teacher's College and whose primer Composition illustrates how students might "sketch and vary" to test different proportions and arrangements.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".
1918, Georgia O'Keeffe, House with Tree–Red -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This pair of watercolors demonstrates how O'Keeffe experimented with variations in composition, scale, and color. In the larger, green-hued work, three small trees flank the foreground and the moon is almost fully visible, while in the smaller version with red, only two trees appear at front and the moon is half obscured. Such trials reflect the influence of educator Arthur Wesley Dow, whose courses O'Keeffe took at Columbia University's Teacher's College and whose primer Composition illustrates how students might "sketch and vary" to test different proportions and arrangements.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".