Apollo Magazine

Georgia O’Keeffe

The Fondation Beyeler follows the painter’s career over six decades, from early abstractions to desert landscapes

Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie’s II, (1930), Georgia O'Keeffe.

Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico/Out Back of Marie’s II, (1930), Georgia O'Keeffe. Photo: Georgia O‘Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe/Art Resource, NY; © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich

This display at the Fondation Beyeler (23 January–22 May) is O’Keeffe’s first major survey in Basel. It traces her career across six decades, from her early abstractions through to her celebrated desert landscapes of the American Southwest, taking in the famous flower paintings and New York views. Find out more from the Beyeler’s website.

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Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), Georgia O’Keeffe. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas, USA. Photography by Edward C. Robison III; © 2016 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum/DACS, London

New York Street with Moon (1925), Georgia O’Keeffe. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; © VEGAP, Madrid, 2021

Pelvis with the Distance (1943), Georgia O’Keeffe. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum / 2021, ProLitteris, Zurich

Series I, No. 8 (1919), Georgia O’Keeffe. © Städtische Galerie im Lenbach- haus und Kunstbau Munich

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