9781422276471

G eorgia O 'K eeffe AN ETERNAL SPIRIT

Bear Lake (Desert Abstraction) 1931, oil on canvas; 15 1/2 x 36 1/2 in. (39.4 cm x 92.7 cm). Museum of New Mexico Foundation Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Completed soon after O’Keeffe had begun her visits to the Southwest, this early abstract work is built around light on the mountains, truly “distances in layers.”

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