Georgia O'Keeffe

""My New Yorks""

Sarah Kelly Oehler, Annelise K. Madsen, Adrienne Brown , Sascha T. Scott

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Art Institute of Chicago
29 August 2024

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A revelatory study of Georgia O'Keeffe's New York paintings of the late 1920s and their deep significance within the artist's development

In 1924 Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) first moved to the Shelton Hotel in New York with her husband, the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. The Shelton was Manhattan's earliest residential skyscraper, and its dizzying heights inspired O'Keeffe to create a powerful series of approximately twenty-five paintings and numerous drawings over a span of about five years. She called these ""my New Yorks,"" and they overwhelmingly consist of two types of compositions: sprawling observations looking down onto the city and humbling views directed up at the newly built urban monoliths. Exploring the New York skyline, O'Keeffe resisted the approach of contemporaries such as Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand—who celebrated New York as a streamlined, impersonal series of geometric canyons—and instead portrayed it as an amalgamation of the organic and the inorganic, the natural and the constructed. Only in this way could she express New York (in her words) ""as it is felt.""

Reshaping our understanding of this pivotal yet underappreciated period in O'Keeffe's storied career, this publication situates the New York paintings within the artist's larger oeuvre and examines how these works reflect narratives of built environments, racialized space, and the politics of place.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition Schedule:

The Art Institute of Chicago

(June 2–September 22, 2024)

High Museum, Atlanta

(October 25, 2024–February 16, 2025)

By: Sarah Kelly Oehler, Annelise K. Madsen
Contributions by: Adrienne Brown, Sascha T. Scott, Lisa Volpe
Imprint: Art Institute of Chicago
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 229mm,
ISBN: 9780300275759
ISBN 10: 0300275757
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 29 August 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sarah Kelly Oehler is Field-McCormick Chair and Curator, Arts of the Americas, and vice president of curatorial strategy, and Annelise K. Madsen is Gilda and Henry Buchbinder Associate Curator, Arts of the Americas, both at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Reviews for Georgia O'Keeffe: ""My New Yorks""

“The paintings here capture some of the razzle dazzle of the jazz era and the sheer awe people felt in navigating this brave new world.”—Ann Landi, Wall Street Journal, “Holiday Gift Books 2024: Fine Art”