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Oil on board

Petunia and Glass Bottle

Maria Chabot

O’Keeffe’s trip to Hawaii was sponsored by the Dole Pineapple Company, which had commissioned the artist to paint a pineapple plant for use as an advertisement. This three-month trip proved immensely inspiring for O’Keeffe, and she returned home with numerous sketches, photographs, and paintings, including this one. None of these paintings, however, was of a pineapple. When O'Keeffe finally painted the requested pineapple, it was from a plant the company sent to her in New York following her return from Hawaii.

Georgia O'Keeffe Series I-No. I 1918 Oil on composition board 19 3/4 x 16 in.

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements. Called the "Mother of American modernism", O'Keeffe gained international recognition for her paintings of natural forms, particularly flowers and desert-inspired landscapees

Oil on canvas 30 3/16 × 36 3/16 in. (76.7 × 91.9 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA

Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887-1986), Corn, Dark , No. 1, 1924. Oil on wood fiberboard, 31 ¾ x 11 7/8 in. (80.6 x 30.2 cm)

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue Hills No.III, 1916. Watercolor on paper

Georgia O'Keeffe, Green Hill, 1916. Watercolor on paper

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe

From the Old Garden No. I, 1924.

Georgia O’Keeffe corresponded with a number of other artists with mental health issues. She was an early mentor to Yayoi Kusama who, like her, struggled with anxiety. She corresponded with Andy Warhol who has been suggested to have had a hoarding disorder, which is an anxiety disorder. And when she was in the hospital for depression, Frida Kahlo wrote to her.

From the Old Garden No. 1 (1924)

Lake George Barns, 1926, Georgia O'Keeffe

Red Poppy VI, Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Russell Vernon Hunter, 1932 ..