Georgia O’Keeffe, Lisa Mintz Messinger

Georgia O’Keeffe’s inimitable style vibrantly showcases the sweeping landscapes of the American West as well as details of the natural world such as flowers and bones. This collection of her work, compiled by Lisa Mintz Messinger for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, aims to illustrate a general discussion of her life and art with the use of sketches and personal photographs, sketches and biographical annotations weaved between her striking artwork.

Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, on November 15 1887. She began her formal studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York. Unlike many of her American contemporaries, O’Keeffe did not travel abroad for study and her work was developed wholly on American soil. A brilliant colourist, her abstract paintings of nature are striking in their apparent simplicity, yet are the result of intense observation and familiarity with the subject or location.