20th Century Influential Women in Art

1923-1949
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Georgia O'Keefe
Early O'Keefe
O'Keefe 1923-1949
O'Keefe Skyscape
O'Keefe Landscapes
O'Keefe Skulls
Frida Kahlo-Self Portrait
Frida Kahlo-Fruits of the Earth
Frida Kahlo-Self Portrait-Dedicated to Leon Trotsky
Frida Kahlo-Henry Ford Hospital
Frida Kahlo-A Few Small Nips
Judy Chicago, Early Feminism, 1939-present
Ana Mendieta, Performance Artist, 1948-1985
Blanche Mary Grambs, born 1916, Graphic Artist
Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz, 1867-1945, Graphic Artist with a hint of Expressionalism
Mary Ellen Crouteau, 1950-present, Post-Feminism
Exhibit: Marisol Escobar
Exhibit: Glenna Goodacre
Exhibit: Camillie Claudel
Exhibit: Barbara Hepworth
Exhibit: Augusta Savage

Georgia O'Keefe

Red Canna 1923 Oil painting

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O’Keefe’s flower paintings, many executed in the 1920s, are bee’s-eye views. They carry us through undulating landscapes of petals, stamen, pistil, a super-reality of female “privates.” Warhol’s silkscreened flowers blow hibiscus (or are they marigolds? impatiens?) up to tire-size. Foliage retains some photographic detail but the flowers themselves, like Warhol’s icons of Mao and Marilyn, are purposefully generic, the artist splashing them with color, often printing them in grids. Warhol’s flowers, the equivalent of mass plantings, may even have been satirizing O’Keefe’s works, her burrowing bloom-by-bloom intensity.

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