1. Featured Artist Georgia O’Keefe Westgate Elementary School
Featured Artist Georgia O’Keefe Westgate Elementary School . Art Appreciation

2. A quick glimpse into the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe and the area around her home studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico

3. The Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico

4. The museum displays many sketches of Georgia’s work
The museum displays many sketches of Georgia’s work. If you visit The Georgia O’Keefe Museum, you may be asked if you’d like to use one of their sketch pads! You can sketch what you see – or just get inspired by her work! Seeing her sketches can be very interesting because it shows her “thoughts or ideas” before the final picture is produced.

5. Here’s an example of Georgia’s sketch (this is about the size of a business card, so quite small!)

6. The little sketch shows the idea for this grand painting!

7. Here is how small the sketch is (at left) – compared to the final painting!

8. Georgia O’Keefe looked at things in a different way, or viewed things from a different perspective. Then she painted what she saw!

9. Georgia painted scenes from New York City, where she lived with her husband.

10. When Georgia wasn’t in New York City, she lived in New Mexico
When Georgia wasn’t in New York City, she lived in New Mexico. Here is her home and studio in Abiquiu

11. From her house in New Mexico, she saw and painted beautiful landscapes.

12. Here is a detail of her painting
Here is a detail of her painting. Note the colors of the dry desert, the mountains, and dry grasses.

13. Georgia O’Keefe’s paint box The Georgia O’Keefe Museum, New Mexico

14. This scene is near her home in Abiquiu, New Mexico Notice how the earthen colors are reflected in her paintings?

15. Lavender Hill The Georgia O’Keefe Museum, New Mexico

16. Across the street from her home and studio is this church in Abiquiu New Mexico. You can see how the colors in the area are also shown in her paintings. (notice the beautiful clouds!)

17. The sky of New Mexico is magical
The sky of New Mexico is magical. This picture was taken near her home and studio.

18. When Georgia flew in an airplane – she saw the sky from a different perspective! Then, she painted it!

19. Sky Above Clouds . Georgia O’Keefe . 1965 Art Institute, Chicago

20. “ I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for” Georgia O’Keefe