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Georgia O'Keeffe: Architecture

by Benjamin W. Colman

Georgia O’Keeffe’s art of the built environment

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s art of the built environment

This volume brings attention to a dimension of O’Keeffe’s work often overshadowed by her flower and landscape paintings: her depictions of buildings. Essays by scholars trace these architectural subjects from the 1920s through the 1960s, moving among Manhattan skyscrapers, New York barns, and homes in the Southwest. The book also draws on O’Keeffe’s correspondence with Frank Lloyd Wright and Alexander Girard. Together, these materials frame architecture as a subject through which the artist explored place, identity, and modern life, with attention to the geometry, form, and color of structures.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in Georgia O’Keeffe beyond her better-known flower and landscape paintings
  • Those exploring architecture in modern art, including buildings of New York and the Southwest
  • Readers seeking scholarly essays and correspondence related to an artist’s practice

Themes

Architecture and modern artPlace and identityForm, geometry, and colorO’Keeffe’s artistic practice

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Book overview

A revelatory look at the architecture-inspired paintings of an iconic twentieth-century artist

Best known for her paintings of flowers and landscapes, Georgia O'Keeffe was also deeply engaged in portraying the built environment. From New York City skyscrapers to adobe homes in New Mexico, O'Keeffe (1887-1986) transformed everyday structures into powerful expressions of place, identity, and modern life. Shining new light on a bold and original dimension of O'Keeffe's practice, this book includes essays by leading scholars that trace the evolution of the artist's architectural works from the 1920s through the 1960s and draws on O'Keeffe's correspondence with luminaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Alexander Girard. Whether focusing on the soaring verticality of Manhattan, the vernacular charm of barns in upstate New York, or the contemplative spaces of the Southwest, O'Keeffe mined the geometry, form, and color of buildings to create works that are at once personal and universal, inviting viewers to reconsider how modern eyes can perceive and understand the structures that surround us.

Distributed for the Detroit Institute of Arts

Exhibition Schedule:

Detroit Institute of Arts
(September 11, 2026-January 3, 2027)

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