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1917, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink and Green Mountains No. IV [watercolor] -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: In this series of watercolors, O'Keeffe translated the sedimentary structure of a mountain in the Rockies into discrete bands of color. She left areas of white paper blank to connote clouds or spots of snow. "It was wonderful - so bare and lonesome," she wrote to Alfred Stieglitz of her summer visit to Ward, Colorado, where these were made. "The ground underfoot covered with brilliant flowers - brilliant red - deepest blue - light blue - lavender - purple - yellow - every color it seemed." An image on this letter's envelope shows the faithfulness of her depiction of this landscape, even as she reduces its forms toward abstraction.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".
1917, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pink and Green Mountains No. IV [watercolor] -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: In this series of watercolors, O'Keeffe translated the sedimentary structure of a mountain in the Rockies into discrete bands of color. She left areas of white paper blank to connote clouds or spots of snow. "It was wonderful - so bare and lonesome," she wrote to Alfred Stieglitz of her summer visit to Ward, Colorado, where these were made. "The ground underfoot covered with brilliant flowers - brilliant red - deepest blue - light blue - lavender - purple - yellow - every color it seemed." An image on this letter's envelope shows the faithfulness of her depiction of this landscape, even as she reduces its forms toward abstraction.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".