1917, Georgia O'Keeffe, No. 20 – Special -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: O'Keeffe described Texas's Palo Duro Canyon as a "slit in the ground" whose "big hills - long drops - thick trunked scrubby cedars" thrilled her. She framed the canyon in various ways in a series of works that include those gathered on the wall and the graphite sketches in a nearby case. These small studies delineate the canyon's form, while the painting No. 20 – Special introduces color and switches to a vertical orientation. The charcoal drawings Drawing XIII and Untitled (Abstraction) isolate the "scrubby cedars," rendering them as abstract protrusions.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".
1917, Georgia O'Keeffe, No. 20 – Special -- Museum of Modern Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: O'Keeffe described Texas's Palo Duro Canyon as a "slit in the ground" whose "big hills - long drops - thick trunked scrubby cedars" thrilled her. She framed the canyon in various ways in a series of works that include those gathered on the wall and the graphite sketches in a nearby case. These small studies delineate the canyon's form, while the painting No. 20 – Special introduces color and switches to a vertical orientation. The charcoal drawings Drawing XIII and Untitled (Abstraction) isolate the "scrubby cedars," rendering them as abstract protrusions.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition "Georgia O’Keeffe - To See Takes Time".