Georgia O'Keeffe is most commonly associated with flowers. Living much of her life in the Southern and Southwestern United States, O'Keeffe took full advantage of the beautiful environment which she inhabited. While she explored many subjects in her long career (she lived to be 98 years old), it is her portrayals of flowers that most interest collectors and art lovers.

Works like "A Sunflower from Maggie" exhibit immediate aesthetic and emotional appeal. Many artists have explored the sunflower, and few have done so in as warm and wonderful a way as O'Keeffe. The magnificent greens of the stem and leaves and yellows of the petals are rendered in such a sweet and perfect way as to give one the sensation of sunshine on one's back.

"Black and Purple Petunias" express another side of the emotion found in nature. The work, while portraying beautiful flowers, has a somber effect. The deep, dark purples are almost unsettling in their intensity, and the droop of the flowers seems to express a kind of mourning. "Autumn Leaves," on the other hand, is alive with the rich colors that characterize the fall season.

O'Keeffe was more liberal in her choice of subjects while living in New Mexico near the end of her life. Pieces such as "Black Cross, New Mexico" and "Another Church, Hernandez, New Mexico" explore the deep religious, natural and mythical aspects of the region. We stock works from every period of O'Keeffe's life here at ARTinaClick.com, providing an essential resource for serious O'Keeffe collectors.

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