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Georgia O’Keeffe. Untitled (Vase of Flowers), 1903-1905. Watercolor on paper, 17 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe), Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.3]
Watercolor study of red flowers on thorny, leaf covered branches in glass vase. The vase of flowers is positioned slightly left of the center at the bottom of the paper. There are two primary branches of flowers, one that extends up, and one that bends up and towards the right side of the page. The background is done in a light tan and light gray green wash.
In 1903, O’Keeffe left her high school in Madison, Wisconsin, to join her family in Williamsburg, Virginia. There she enrolled as a boarding student at Chatham Episcopal Institute, where she was encouraged to pursue her interest in the arts. Painted when O’Keeffe was in her late teens, this still life already reveals an early mastery of watercolor, a technique she would go on to perfect as an art student in Chicago in 1905–06, and in New York in 1907–08. Both the subject of this painting (a floral still life) and the watercolor medium would have been judged “appropriate” from a woman painter near the turn of the century, and this remained the case when O’Keeffe was completing her studies.
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