Even though New York skyscrs were their pictorial theme for a time, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) found mostly in nature: flowers, barren, deserted landscapes and animal bones that bleach in the desert sand. Some of her subjects occupied her for decades and produced a dozen or more variations of an origin image. Famous and an American icon, she became an American icon due to her flower images. By magnifying the tiniest petals into a canvas-filling format, O'Keeffe created a protoabstract imagery of shapes and lines that earned her the nickname "Mother of American Modernism."As posters and art prints, her pictures are now distributed millions of times all over the world. In 1946, O'Keeffe was the first artist to attend a solo exhibition at New York MoMA. After the death of her husband and impresarios, photographer legend Alfred Stieglitz, O'Keeffe moved to the desert of New Mexico, which now provided her with the motifs for her pictures with her sharp shadows, glowing light, rock formations, canyons and lonely adobe houses.Richly illustrated with key works of the painter from all stages of work, portraits Alfred Stieglitz made of her, as well as later photographs, this volume of our Basic Art series documents the most important stations in Georgia O'Keefe's long and productive artist life.About the rangeSince its first publication in 1985, the Basic Art Series has become the best-selling art book series of all time. Each title in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series contains:A detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, which appreciates its cultural and historical significance.a concise biographyA total of around 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions.