Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif)
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Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)1927
Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif)
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986) →ModernismCubismoil on canvaspainting
Date
1927
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.6 × 76.2 cm (36 1/16 × 30 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe
In the 1920s Georgia O’Keeffe began creating the paintings of enlarged flowers for which she is most famous, including a series of works devoted to the white rose; this painting is her most abstracted depiction of the subject. O’Keeffe simplified the energy of the blooming rose to its essence, so that it resembles a brilliant light radiating out of flat Cubist planes. She exhibited this painting as White Rose— Abstraction at Alfred Stieglitz’s Intimate Gallery in 1928 and retitled it Ballet Skirt or Electric Light (from the White Rose Motif) when she lent it to the Art Institute of Chicago’s 1943 retrospective of her work.
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