Georgia O’Keeffe: the painter who captured America

Published in BBC Culture on July 6, 2016

To look at a Georgia O’Keeffe painting is to see America. Throughout her career, from her first show in 1916 to the late 1970s, the indomitable artist was concerned with what it meant to paint her country – and she became captivated by the wide plains, rocky outcrops and bold blue skies of New Mexico, her adopted home. Continue reading “Georgia O’Keeffe: the painter who captured America”