Road – Mesa with Mist

Georgia O'KeeffeWW-1961-016238

1961·Oil on canvas·41.3 × 30.8 cm (16 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)

<p>This atmospheric painting of gray mists tumbling down a mesa and obscuring the road below strikingly demonstrates Georgia O’Keeffe’s fascination with changing weather effects. Although her works frequently demonstrate a crystal clarity of perception, here she captured a cloudy moment seen from her home and studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico. Her bedroom overlooked the main road that connected Abiquiu with the larger towns of Española and Santa Fe, and her eye was drawn to its wide sweep up the mesa.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1961
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 41.3 × 30.8 cm (16 1/4 × 12 1/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe

Artist

Georgia O'Keeffe

Painting

One of the most successful artists of the 20th century, Georgia O’Keeffe enjoyed a long and varied artistic career in which she introduced many new aesthetic perspectives and approaches in Modernism. Born in Wisconsin in 1887, she studied at the Art Institute of Chicago beginning in 1905 before taking teaching position in South Carolina, Virginia and Texas. She moved to New York City in 1918 at the age of 31 where she became part of the artistic milieu of her future husband photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In these years, she became fascinated with the fast pace of city life and produced paintings highlighting the city’s soaring skyscrapers as symbols of the modern world.

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