Morning Glory with Black by Georgia O'Keeffe
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Morning Glory with Black

Georgia O'Keeffe · 1926

A flower fills the frame until it becomes landscape, body, and abstraction at once.

What to notice

Follow the white petals into the black petunia at lower right; the contrast makes the soft curves feel almost architectural.

Discover

O'Keeffe enlarged flowers to a scale that made familiar forms newly strange. The close crop shifts attention from botanical description to shape, rhythm, and design.

Source institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Rights status: CC0 / Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access
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