“In the present work, O’Keeffe skillfully renders the heart-shaped flower’s waxy texture and creates sharply delineated contours with her assured brushstrokes. She utilizes vibrant hues of red and green to imbue the composition with a sense of vitality and dynamism. By reducing extraneous details, O’Keeffe emphasizes the natural beauty of the flower and compels her viewer to consider a representational object not for its function but rather purely for its formal qualities—its distinctive color, line and shape—that might otherwise be overlooked in everyday life. As such, Anthurium simultaneously becomes both an interpretation of a flower as well as a reflection on the union between color and form.”

Sotheby’s

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Hat Tip

Thanks to shoreacres (Linda at The Task at Hand blog) who introduced me to a fascinating article, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Blindness: An Interview with Carol Merrill, about Georgia O’Keeffe’s struggle with macular degeneration in her later years.

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~Sunnyside