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Witness History

Georgia O'Keeffe

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the world's most influential female artists - in 2014, her painting "Jimson Weed" sold for the highest price ever paid for a work by a woman. Famous for her vivid oil paintings of flowers, landscapes and animal skulls, she lived and worked in the wild dry canyons and deserts of New Mexico in the southern United States. Lucy Burns speaks to her former assistant Agapita Judy Lopez.

PHOTO: Georgia O'Keeffe's "Cow skull" on display at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014 (Getty Images)

Transcript

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Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

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searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading Witness History from the BBC World Service.

0:39.8

This week we're bringing you the stories of some of the most famous artists of the

0:43.7

20th century. For our final program Lucy Burns spoke to some of the friends of the

0:49.4

great American artist Georgia O'Keefe, who died in 1986.

0:54.0

O'Keefe was famous for her vivid oil paintings of flowers, landscapes and animal skulls.

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She lived and worked in the southern United States in the wild dry canyons and deserts of New Mexico.

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In this untamed land of space lives an American painter Georgia O'Keefe. The artist

1:16.8

constantly seeks to find the image of this country. Some of them look very

1:22.2

abstract until you see the actual landscape and you get where it comes

1:27.8

through. The colors, the lighting.

1:30.8

Always aware and sensitive to things seen, the artist translates her feelings onto canvas.

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A moment of time is caught.

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It is transformed into a timeless image.

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You are so familiar with the landscape that it becomes part of your daily life,

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but when someone like Miss O'Keefe who always seemed to find something new,

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