Georgia O'Keefe

I just returned from a visit to my mom's place in New Mexico. The artistic highlight of the trip was a visit to the Georgia O'Keefe Museum in Santa Fe. The museum is a true retrospective of the artist's life from her childhood in Wisconsin to her later days in New Mexico. My favorite pieces on display were her early watercolors. She painted oils later in her career and these are more famous. The watercolors were painted in the 1916-1917 era mostly. She was very modern and loose in her watercolor technique in her early days. I plan to paint some of her early watercolors next semester. I also liked an oil painting titled The Cottonwood Tree very much. It reminded me of the horse trail ride that I took with my daugher's along the Rio Grande on December 27.