Georgia O’Keeffe
Artist: Tony Vaccaro (American, 1922 - 2022)
Date: 1961
Dimensions:
18 x 14 5/8 in. (45.8 x 37.2 cm)
Medium: Color Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts
Object number: 1969.318
Label Text:Michael A. Vaccaro (also known as Tony Vaccaro) depicts 73-year-old artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) holding her 1945 painting Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow. Made between 1943 and 1947, O’Keeffe’s series of paintings depicted variations of animal pelvic bones. The painting in the photograph is a particularly abstract composition with bold, expressive colors. While you can catch glimpses of the New Mexico landscape where O’Keeffe lived for more than 40 years, the focus is on the painting, which she herself frames. As her friend novelist Jean Toomer once stated about Pelvis Series, O’Keeffe painted “the universe through the portal of a bone.”
After working as a battlefield photographer during World War II, Vaccaro became known for photographing celebrities and fashion for publications such as Life and Look. His photographs of O’Keeffe were taken for an article about women artists published in Look magazine in 1960.
After working as a battlefield photographer during World War II, Vaccaro became known for photographing celebrities and fashion for publications such as Life and Look. His photographs of O’Keeffe were taken for an article about women artists published in Look magazine in 1960.
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