O'Keeffe

American

[oh-keef] / oʊˈkif /

noun

Georgia, 1887–1986, U.S. painter.

O'Keeffe British

/ əʊˈkiːf /

noun

Georgia. 1887–1986, US painter, best known for her semiabstract still lifes, esp of flowers: married the photographer Alfred Stieglitz

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Trunk, branches, leaves and night sky form an intricate pattern, creating the taut balance between image and abstract form that O’Keeffe was achieving in many of her paintings of the 1920s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The author promises discoveries as well as a fresh take on the familiar, including 19th-century paintings by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny, a violet Caspar David Friedrich moonscape and plenty of Georgia O’Keeffe.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The most expensive painting by a female artist sold to date is a 1932 work by American Georgia O'Keeffe, which fetched $44.4 million in 2014.

From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025

California African American Museum explores the legacy of Black artists in Altadena; 2025 California Biennial in Orange County; and a new documentary about Georgia O’Keeffe.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025

Georgia O’Keeffe called some of her works “equivalents” because their forms were abstracted in a way that gave the emotional parallel of the source experience.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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