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Georgia O'Keeffe. Dark Iris No. III, 1927. Pastel on paper, 20 1/4 x 9 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe), Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [1997.4.7]
Vertical extreme close-up pastel of the delicate inner folds of an iris flower. Palette of subtle grey-purples. Mostly abstract rendition of iris petals closing in on one another, with the darkest area in the lower right corner.
In 1924, Georgia O’Keeffe began making paintings and pastels in various sizes, all of which focused on the centers of flowers. As she later explained in an exhibition brochure:
A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower—the idea of flowers. . . . Still, in a way, nobody sees a flower—really—it is so small—we haven’t time—and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. . . . So I said to myself—I’ll paint what I see—what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it—I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
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