Georgia O'Keeffe. On the River I, ca. 1965. Oil on canvas, 30 1/8 x 40 1/16 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.392]
The viewer appears to be looking at the canyon from an unusual angle, perhaps from below. The image could also be the reflection of the cliffs on the surface of the river. Cliffs rise from all sides, and a triangular patch of light sky fills the center of the image.
This painting was inspired by a rafting trip down the Colorado River that O’Keeffe took with her friends, photographers Eliot Porter and Todd Webb, in 1961. Work was already underway on the Glen Canyon Dam, which would flood the area to create Lake Powell, and Porter and Webb sought to document this natural canyon, carved into the Colorado Plateau, before its red sandstone walls were submerged. The abstract character of this composition stems in part from its unconventional perspective: looking up at a pale pink sky framed by reddish cliffs.
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