A soft white flower is transformed into a turbulent whirlpool in “Abstraction White Rose, 1927,” by Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986). O’Keeffe was a ground-breaking modernist painter who shunned realism, creating magnified images of flowers and bold images which were designed to rivet attention. Her rural upbringing in Wisconsin inspired her love of nature which formed the basis of her revolutionary flower paintings. The first woman to have her own exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, O’Keefe’s talent and independence cemented her enduring legacy.

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