1945, Georgia O'Keeffe, Goat's Horn with Blue -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Here, O'Keeffe treats the spiral of a goat's horn as both subject and lens, exploring its distinct materiality and using it to frame the sky beyond. She found such horns and bones, which she collected in the New Mexican desert, to be "most wonderful against the Blue – that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished" (a likely reference to the Second World War, which ended the year this work was made). A studio photograph shows this work in process on an easel, where it appears larger than its ultimate composition, suggesting it was cut down prior to being completed.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".
1945, Georgia O'Keeffe, Goat's Horn with Blue -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Here, O'Keeffe treats the spiral of a goat's horn as both subject and lens, exploring its distinct materiality and using it to frame the sky beyond. She found such horns and bones, which she collected in the New Mexican desert, to be "most wonderful against the Blue – that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished" (a likely reference to the Second World War, which ended the year this work was made). A studio photograph shows this work in process on an easel, where it appears larger than its ultimate composition, suggesting it was cut down prior to being completed.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".