Georgia O'Keefe: Nature and Abstraction by Richard D. Marshall, Achille Bonito Oliva, and Yvonne Scott

Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction–published for the exhibition at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin–explores O’Keeffe’s method of transforming known or recognizable objects into painted abstractions that express the essential elements of form, color, and allusion. This catalog presents O’Keeffe’s oeuvre through a selection of paintings that display her penchant for abstract forms derived from her personal observation of the natural world. It displays the development of her aesthetic vocabulary, as well as it’s evolution–as seen through her later work which she created well into the 1970s. Also presented are examples of O’Keeffe’s personal inspirations, such as flowers, trees, dried bones, and aerial perspectives, as well as her favorite places, such as New York City and New Mexico.

• Hardcover: 192 pages

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• How We Read It: Mom reading to kids.
• Age of Children at Time of Reading: 7 & 5

How It Came Alive

Creating Art

The children copied her work.

Consuming Art

Before I read the title of the painting, each person in our family took turns sharing what we saw in her paintings. Then we discussed how we each saw something different from each other and different from the artist. Those interpretations began to emerge when viewing each other's work.