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1922, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lightning at Sea [pastel] -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: On a visit to Maine's York Beach, O'Keeffe attempted to capture the ever-shifting oceanscape in a series of pastels, including the cresting wave nearby and these two storm scenes. The charged intensity and palette of this pair correspond to the artist's description of the sky at the time: "a most wonderful purplish-gray yellow-gray pink storm cloud with lightning streaking through it." Afterward, she was moved to wield her materials with the same frenzy she had witnessed: "Am going at the pastels again now, the skin is wearing off my fingers from rubbing."
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".
1922, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lightning at Sea [pastel] -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: On a visit to Maine's York Beach, O'Keeffe attempted to capture the ever-shifting oceanscape in a series of pastels, including the cresting wave nearby and these two storm scenes. The charged intensity and palette of this pair correspond to the artist's description of the sky at the time: "a most wonderful purplish-gray yellow-gray pink storm cloud with lightning streaking through it." Afterward, she was moved to wield her materials with the same frenzy she had witnessed: "Am going at the pastels again now, the skin is wearing off my fingers from rubbing."
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".