Beginning her career when women were not recognized in the art world, modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 – 1986) rejected artistic conventions to blaze new trails of creative innovation. Expressing what she felt rather than what she was taught, her enormous, signature paintings like “Red Canna” vibrantly speak with dramatic color and form. Reducing flowers to their simplest elements and then magnifying them to glorious abstractions, she draws attention to beauty that was often overlooked in art which came before O’Keeffe.

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