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Georgia O'Keeffe American
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This monumental flower painting is one of O'Keeffe's early masterpieces. Enlarging the petals far beyond lifesize proportions, she forces the viewer to observe the small details that might otherwise be overlooked. When paintings from this group were first shown in 1924, even Alfred Stieglitz, her husband and dealer, was shocked by their audacity.
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Title: Black Iris
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 36 in. × 29 7/8 in. (91.4 × 75.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1969
Accession Number: 69.278.1
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Connections: Greenhouse
Nineteenth-century paintings curator Rebecca Rabinow finds a way to get a taste of the outdoors inside the galleries.
Timeline of Art History
Essay
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and His Circle
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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986)
Chronology
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.-present
Museum Publications
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 9, The United States of America
Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe
Art = Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History
"Georgia O'Keeffe"
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