I tried to paint what I saw…

From the Lake ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

“I tried to paint what I saw…I thought someone could tell me how to paint a landscape but I never found that person…I had to just settle down and try…they could tell you how they painted their landscape but they couldn’t tell me how to paint mine” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Storm Cloud, Lake George ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Lake George (formerly Reflection Seascape) ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Black Place II ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Lake George Barns ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Jack in the Pulpit No.V ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

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abiquiu, new mexico ~ georgia o’keeffe country

“When I got to New Mexico, that was mine…as soon as I saw it, that was my country…I had never seen anything like it before but it fitted to me exactly…it’s something that’s in the air…it’s just different…the sky is different…the stars are different…the wind is different” ~ Georgia O’Keeffe, age 92, from a video interview taken around her home in New Mexico

July 1981 ~ Georgia O’Keeffe’s home and studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico…photography by Mary E. Nichols for Architectural Digest

Georgia O’Keeffe ~ 94 years old, July 1981

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golden yellow

Wishing you a glorious weekend filled with shades of golden yellow!

Green, Yellow and Orange ~ Georgia O’Keeffe

Yellow Farm at Pouldu ~ Paul Serusier, 1890

Yellow Irises ~ Claude Monet, 1914-1917

Orange and yellow ~ Mark Rothko

Yellow Haystacks (Golden Harvest) ~ Paul Gauguin, 1889

Two Dancers in Yellow and Pink ~ Edgar Degas, 1910

Characters in yellow ~ Paul Klee, 1937

A girl in yellow dress ~ Amedeo Modigliani, 1917

The Yellow House ~ Vincent van Gogh, 1888

The Yellow Curtain ~ Henri Matisse, 1915

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