Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy
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Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)1928
Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) →Modernismoil on canvaspainting
Date
1928
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.5 × 101.6 cm (29 7/8 × 39 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, gift of Georgia O'Keeffe
In Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy, Georgia O’Keeffe painted the vividly colored leaves and white flower at a significantly magnified scale. She was inspired by the foliage she found on her walks in the summer around Lake George in upstate New York. Although she represented the leaves with carefully realistic handling, the close focus underscores their abstract qualities. She hoped that the strangely monumental subjects would inspire viewers to, as she said, “be surprised into taking time to look” at them in a new way.
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