“Lake George with White Birch marks a fundamental departure from O’Keeffe’s predecessors, one that is much more in keeping with her European peers such as Wassily Kandinksy and Emil Nolde in its strikingly emotive use of color. Rather than merely transcribing nature she successfully alters the landscape to convey the true spirit of the place and the impact of the fiery autumnal scene on her personally. This pivotal painting demonstrates O’Keeffe’s distillation of various influences into her own unique style. “From [Arthur Wesley] Dow and art nouveau O’Keeffe had learned about composition and design, from Picasso and Braque she had received instruction about form and structure, and from Kandinksy and Matisse she had garnered invaluable insights into color. From Stieglitz and other photographers she learned how to read photographs, how to appropriate some of their strategies, and how she could both utilize and undercut the mimetic properties of the medium in order to present ‘the real meaning of things’” (ibid., p. 289).”

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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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