Liked this at the Harvard Art Museum when Jennie and I traveled to Boston for a recent conference.
The Gallery Text says:
O’Keeffe created Red and Pink on commission for the Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company, the largest American producer of the fabric in the 1920s. The painting was reproduced in advertisements for the colorful textile designs the company was introducing in the fall of 1926. The artist achieved abstraction by enlarging and cropping the cascading petals of a flower beyond recognition, in a manner that recalls the close-up techniques of modernist photography. It was an approach she also employed in her iconic large-scale paintings of plants, flowers, and natural phenomena of the American southwest. The vibrant undulating forms insinuate a wide range of organic structures: from the anatomy of flora, to the composition of flames, to the sanguine recesses of the body.
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