The Meaning of “Waste Land” Mis-Use of the Western Desert In 1945, the foremost artist of the American West, Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) produced an extraordinary work of art, usually placed harmlessly within her Pelvis series. For the past ten...
Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881-1934) The Radiator Building (1924) Alone among a gathering of preening male artists commandeered by her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, to represent American Modernism, Georgia O’Keeffe began painting the most phallic of topics, the New...
PICTURING THE BOMB PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SECRET WORLD OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT Pasadena City College Art Galllery October 5-Novemeber 12, 2011 One of the strangest confluences in art history was the painter, Georgia O’Keeffe, and the father of the atomic bomb, Robert...
Georgia O’Keeffe, Part Four During the 1940s, Georgia O’Keeffe split her time between Taos and New York and while in the Southwest she was present at some remarkable little discussed events. Her home away from home, Ghost Ranch was the site where dinosaurs...
Georgia O’Keeffe, Part Three Liberated from the steel canyons of the skyscraper-lined avenues of New York City, Georgia O’Keeffe found “her country” in New Mexico. Here the painter found new vistas – the extraordinary landscapes of the...
