Detail of “East River from the Shelton ” by Georgia O’Keeffe. Part of the exhibition “My New Yorks” at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 2 to Sept. 22, 2024. Georgia O’Keeffe, the mother of American modernism, painted skulls and flowers, often in disarmingly sensuous close-up, as well as the monumental desert landscape surrounding her home and studio in rural New Mexico.
O’Keeffe was already well-known by then, praised by critics for her magnified pictures of flowers, a theme deemed appropriately feminine. Stieglitz’s photographic portraits of her, many nude, contributed to the sexualized interpretation her work often received. How better to combat that bias than by taking on the most masculine subject of all: the high-rises and canyons of Manhattan?
O’Keeffe continued taking inspiration from her frequent walks around midtown Manhattan and the extraordinary buildings going up all around her. The most significant of these was the Shelton Hotel, a behemoth that filled the entirety of Lexington Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets, the tallest residential tower in the world when it opened in 1923. O’Keeffe and Stieglitz lived there on and off for a decade, and it is the subject of her finest New York painting, “The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y.
"East River from the Shelton " by Georgia O’Keeffe. Part of the exhibition “My New Yorks” at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 2 to Sept. 22, 2024.
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