A picture of calm, courtesy of Georgia O’Keeffe. This painting depicts the rugged, light-strewn terrain of New Mexico, and was painted the same year that O’Keeffe first visited the region. The Wisconsin-born artist was instantly captivated, and would return there almost annually to immerse herself in the landscape and paint in solitude. “By 1929 O’Keeffe confirmed that her truest, most consistent visual sources were in the American Southwest,” writes curator Jack Cowart. “These sources refreshed her physically, mentally, artistically. [They] struck her as authentic and essential to her life as well as to her art… She wanted to show her wonder.”
