EYE CANDY

A Look Back at Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ever Enduring Style

by Steph Eckardt

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Philadelphia Museum of Art

Georgia O’Keeffe may have been an American Modernist painter, but it’s Georgia O’Keeffe the style icon who’s at the center of “Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern,” an exhibition up at the Brooklyn Museum through July, which proves that O’Keeffe was also an accomplished seamstress in her own right.

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait, 1918.

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George F. Mobley, Georgia O’Keeffe and“Black Place III,” 1980.

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, ca. 1920-22.

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Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe and Orville Cox, 1937.

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe at 291, 1917.

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Todd Webb, Georgia O’Keeffe on Ghost Ranch Portal, New Mexico, ca. 1960s.

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Bruce Weber, Georgia O’Keeffe, Abiquiu, N.M., 1984.

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Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe, Carmel Highlands, California, 1981.

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Ansel Adams, Georgia O’Keeffe at Yosemite, 1938.

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918.

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Cecil Beaton, Georgia O’Keeffe in Black Hat Pondering Animal Skull; Wearing Pin by Alexander Calder, Vogue, 1967.

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Richard Avedon, Georgia O’Keeffe, artist, New York, 1958.

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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1929.