1. To create one's own world,
Georgia O’Keeffe
American Painter
To create one's own world,
in any of the arts,
takes courage.
Georgia O'Keeffe

2. Photo of Georgia O’Keeffe with Horse’s Skull
1948, photo by Philippe Halsman
O is for O’Keefe
An artist devine
Her paintings are perfect,
Drawings are fine.
-Poem by O’Keefe’s fellow students, posted in the Chatham Episcopal Institute yearbook

3. Light Coming on the Plains II
1917, watercolor, 12” x 9”, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas

4. Blue and Green Music
1919, oil on canvas, 23” x 19”, The Art Institute of Chicago

5. Large Dark Red Leaves on White
1925, oil on canvas, 32” x 21”, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C.

6. Red Poppy 1927, oil on canvas, 7-1/8” x 9”, Private collection
“I’ll paint what I see, what the flower is to me but I’ll make it big….
I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers”

7. Purple Petunia
1927, oil on canvas, 36” x 30”, Private collection
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say in any other way – things I had no words for”

8. Jack in the Pulpit IV
1930, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.

9. Corn Dark I
1924, oil on composition board, 31-3/4” x 11-7/8”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York

10. City Night
1926, oil on canvas, 48” x 30”, location unknown

11. The Lawrence Tree 1929, oil on canvas, 31-1/16” x 39-3/16”, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

12. Ranchos Church I 1929, oil on canvas, 18-1/2” x 24”, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

13. Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses
1931, oil on canvas, 35-3/4” x 24”, The Art Institute of Chicago
“I think…that I am one of the few who gives our country any voice of its own.”

14. Ram’s Head, White Hollyhock—Hills 1935, oil on canvas, 30” x 32-1/4”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

15. the wideness and wonder of the world I live in.
White Shell with Red 1938, pastel on paper, 21” x 27”, Art Institute of Chicago
“I have picked up sea shells and rocks and pieces of wood…I have used these things to say what is me,
the wideness and wonder of the world I live in.

16. Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall
1943, oil on canvas, 30” x 16”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio