American Art Collaborative

Taking winter-stripped trees in upstate New York as her subject, Georgia O'Keeffe simplified what she saw until what is left in this painting is an exploration of shape and color. Throughout her career, O'Keeffe united abstraction with an abiding interest in nature, creating signature, close-up images of natural forms. Nearly twenty years after her death at age ninety-nine, O'Keeffe remains one of the most popular artists of the 20th century, both for her artwork and for her carefully crafted persona as self-reliant icon of the American Southwest.