Georgia O'Keeffe and Remembering to Take the Time to Look Up ︵.︵

[SorellaLaBefana]

‘The sun is bursting through wild dark clouds—I feel like falling into this country like one sometimes wants to fall off a sheer wonderful edge—It has such a feeling of death and terrific life—side by side.’

From a letter dated June 14, 1930 by the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe to her husband, Alfred Stieglitz.

Cirrostratus clouds viewed through a gap in Stratocumulus over Carrboro, North Carolina, US by Angela Winter... who also suggested this [the above] quotation.

More marvels moving in our atmosphere captured by a member of the Cloud Appreciation Society

Here is my favourite of O'Keeffe's Sky Paintings

When thinking of Georgia O'Keeffe's work it is not her Cloud Paintings which come first to many peoples minds. They are so very different to her more famous works in both subject and style.

Wikipedia has many words about her series of cloud paintings. However, in the end, neither paintings nor photographs need words to communicate.

Yet, a bit of background is always helpful and oft gives one a deeper perspective.

[Sweet Rosie Red]

1. Thank You for this!

This quote has given me more insight into O’Keefe’s work. Now I understand her better.
I hope to see more of O’Keefe’s work online. I knew of her but had never seen any of her work when I spotted an enormous framed poster of a white flower on a blue background at a thrift store in Nashville TN, fell in love and bought it. That was 20 years ago and it has occupied an honored place in my home ever since. Research online and at my local library established it as an O’Keefe reproduction. The museum does not offer a print of it at this time and I consider it a collector’s item. I would post a photo, but it is in the shop for reframing today. The frame was battered by so many moves! (And I am unsure of copyright, etc.)

I will never get to New Mexico, but I wish they would put her work online. She was unique in her vision and technique and deserves far more appreciation from the world!

[SorellaLaBefana]

2. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe does have a (very few) of her works online

https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/

Here are a couple of images from her Wikipedia Page showing the sort of imagery more people are familiar with





And, also on Wiki, is the page looking at her cloud series "Sky Above Clouds" which has this haunting image


She was a deeply complex artist and person