Georgia O'Keeffe
American, 1887-1986
Mule Skull with Turkey Feather
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Georgia O'Keeffe
American, 1887-1986c. 1936
Mule Skull with Turkey Feather
Georgia O'Keeffe American, 1887-1986 →graphitedrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1936
Medium
Graphite on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
54.3 × 39.1 cm (21 7/16 × 15 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Margaret Fisher Endowment
Born in Wisconsin, Georgia O’Keeffe divided her time between New York and New Mexico in the years 1929–49. Her first retrospective was mounted by the Art Institute of Chicago in 1943. An influential member of the circle of early modernists that formed around her husband, photographer and dealer Alfred Stieglitz, she was particularly recognized for her synthesis of abstraction and representation, as well as for her superb technical skill. Frequently taking inspiration from natural forms of the Southwest, O’Keeffe rendered two distinct objects—a skull and a feather—in this strong, yet subtle drawing, paying particular attention to the formal relationships between
the two.
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