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Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Black Door with Red, 1954. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. | image \u00a9 2026 The Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Foundation\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/p>\n
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Coming across O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s Stables<\/p>\n
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The artist, though she settled in New Mexico, spent her life across the United States, bearing witness to the vastly different landscapes of the country that spans from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean. She grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, spent her adulthood in New York City, and eventually established herself in New Mexico, the Southwestern state whose energy would define her most iconic works. In an interview<\/a> with the DIA<\/a>, the exhibition\u2019s curator, Ben Colman, describes coming across the institution\u2019s only O\u2019Keeffe, Stables (1932). It\u2019s a stark image that looks like the Platonic idea of a house\u2014a white rectangular body, quadrilateral doors and windows, grass, sky. \u2018In asking questions about Stables,\u2019 Colman remarks, \u2018I started to sketch out a broader story about O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s life and her engagement with architecture across her career.\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Exploring the artist\u2019s homes, and landscapes<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The exhibition is arranged not chronologically, but geographically, loosely following O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s homes throughout her life. It starts with images. Initially, the images reflect a more pastoral America with lakes, barns, and blue skies. It then transitions to her time in New York City, where she occupied various stories of the Shelton Hotel<\/a> with her husband, the fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz. As she moved to higher and higher floors in the building, she became enraptured with the views of the cityscape. Then finally, the paintings settle in New Mexico, where some of her most representative paintings were created.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Each frame of her life story<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Colman goes on to remark on how each image \u2018anchors\u2019 O\u2019Keeffe to the cities and environments she found herself in. When sharing a sample of paintings to look out for in the exhibition, he brings up My Shanty, Lake George (1922), a dark brown house set in high-growing grass and shadowed by looming hills. It\u2019s a particularly solemn scene, though Colman says it\u2019s the point, calling on how O\u2019Keeffe herself wanted to be defined beyond her gender. Not just a woman painter, but a painter who could hold rank with her male counterparts.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Her paintings also span the passing of a day, capturing the approaching and waning light of a day in her signature moody hues. New York Street with Moon (1925) sees a bright orange day fade into a cloudy blue night. The white moon peaks from behind the clouds, being mimicked in its way-finding powers by the street lamp below that emits a powerful aura as it dangles above a stoplight flashing red. In Brooklyn Bridge (1949), two arched pathways from the suspension bridge\u2019s roadways ever so slightly partition the day\u2019s light with vignettes of different-hued blues.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n O\u2019Keeffe and built space<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Georgia O\u2019Keeffe: Architecture is not the first time the artist\u2019s proclivity for buildings and homes has been explored. From 2024 to 2026, Artful Living<\/a>: O\u2019Keeffe & Modern Design was on view at the O\u2019Keeffe Welcome Center in Abiqui\u00fa, New Mexico. It was an exploration of her adobe home at Ghost Ranch and how she transformed it into her living and artistic space. Similarly, Georgia O\u2019Keeffe: \u201cMy New Yorks\u201d<\/a> showed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, from 2024 to 2025, moving through the many views of the American city that she depicted in her lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The paintings of Georgia O\u2019Keeffe: Architecture \u00a0 At the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the show Georgia O\u2019Keeffe:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[13763,228,226,227,229,88,9543,343811],"class_list":["post-846887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture-in-the-us","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibitions","tag-modes-of-habitation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"georgia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/okeefe-architecture-designboom-09.jpg\")
Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, Stables, 1932. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert Tannahill, 45.454 | image \u00a9 2026 The Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Foundation\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/p>\n![\"georgia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/okeefe-architecture-designboom-03.jpg\")
Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel, 1928. New Britain Museum of American Art, Stephen B. Lawrence Fund | image \u00a9 2026 The Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Foundation\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/p>\n![\"georgia](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/okeefe-architecture-designboom-06.jpg\")
Georgia O\u2019Keeffe, New York Street with Moon, 1925. Carmen Thyssen Collection, Madrid | image \u00a9 2026 The Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Foundation\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York<\/p>\n