
The concentrated, kaleidoscopic discs create a highly energetic composition. A vortex pulls the viewer’s eyes toward the center while pushing outward beyond the boundaries of the canvas. During her artistic career, O’Keeffe returned repeatedly to circular motifs in the context of abstraction through isolation, simplification, and enlargement. Nature was a primary inspiration for her early abstractions, having said: “It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
24 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (62.9 × 50.2 cm)
Art Bridges
1942
Oil on canvas
AB.2021.4
(Jean Seth, Santa Fe, NM); (Downtown Gallery, New York, NY); Doris Bry [1920-2014], New York, NY; to Private Collection, Dallas, TX, 1975; given to Private Collection, St. Petersburg, FL, 1996; to (Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC, New York, NY); purchased by Art Bridges, TX, 2021