Black White and Blue
1930
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oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 121.9 × 76.2 cm (48 × 30 in.) framed: 122.56 × 77.15 × 3.81 cm (48 1/4 × 30 3/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Barney A. Ebsworth
Accession Number
1998.93.1
Art Historical Context
Georgia O'Keeffe's *Black White and Blue* (1930) is a captivating oil on canvas painting, measuring 48 × 30 inches, that exemplifies her pioneering modernist style. As a key figure in American Precisionism, O'Keeffe distilled natural forms into bold, abstracted compositions, often drawing from the dramatic landscapes of New Mexico where she spent increasing time in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This work's stark title evokes a harmonious tension between its titular colors, rendered with her signature precision and emotional intensity. Painted during a transformative period in O'Keeffe's car...
About the Artist
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) is one of the most significant and original figures in the history of American art, a painter whose career spanned more than seven decades and whose work transformed how American artists engaged with the natural world and with abstraction. Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, she received rigorous academic training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art S...