Happy Birthday to Georgia O’Keeffe, who was born on this day in 1887.

After growing up on a dairy farm, Georgia O’Keeffe began a nomadic existence, studying and teaching art in Illinois, New York, Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina. In 1916, she met the photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, with whom she had a romantic and professional relationship lasting until his death in 1946. O’Keeffe became famous during the 1920s for her paintings of Manhattan’s skyline, and for the lush, close-up views of flowers now synonymous with her name. In 1929, she became fascinated by the empty landscape of New Mexico. Her paintings are highly realistic, but use symbolic devices to evoke the character of the desert — especially huge animal bones suspended in the sky. O’Keeffe traveled regularly to New Mexico before relocating there permanently in 1949. She lived reclusively on her ranch until her death at age 98.

(via SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Georgia O’Keeffe | Lake George [formerly Reflection Seascape])

Submission from wbsloan:

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Painting: Untitled by Clyfford Still

Would you recognize this as a Picasso if it wasn’t captioned? 

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Olga, 1917.

Happy Birthday to abstract expressionist and surrealist painter, Roberto Matta! Today he would be 100 years old.

Roberto Matta

Chilean (Santiago, Chile, 1911 - 2002, Tarquinia, Italy)

Invasion of the Night

1941 | painting | oil on canvas

This 1878 Cezanne portrait was the first in Gertrude and Leo Stein’s collection. Cezanne has painted his wife’s right eye completely black.

(via For Gertrude Stein, Collecting Art Was A Family Affair : NPR)

For those of you who listen to NPR, you may have heard the Stein feature today on Morning Edition. With The Steins Collect now on view in Paris, Steinmania has spread across the globe! Listen to the full story here: For Gertrude Stein, Collecting Art Was A Family Affair : NPR

(On another note, how amazing is the above photo? It’s Matisse painting the infamous Portrait of Michael Stein, with Michael sitting in the background.)

Happy birthday to the king of Ben-Day dots, Roy Lichtenstein!

Although trained as an abstract painter, Roy Lichtenstein became a pioneer of Pop art famed for paintings based on generic romance books and war comics. Lichtenstein transferred the clichéd comic-book compositions to canvas with a projector and simplified them; the resulting paintings mimic the impersonal appearance of cheap four-color printing, despite being meticulously handmade. Characteristic of this work are the enlarged benday dots that would become Lichtenstein’s signature mark.

Lichtenstein abandoned working on comics paintings by the mid-1960s, but he retained a lifelong interest in the mass media. His later work often addressed how an artwork’s meaning changed when it was reproduced and distributed as a commercial image.

(via SFMOMA | Explore Modern Art | Our Collection | Roy Lichtenstein | Interior with Chair, from the Leo Castelli 90th Birthday portfolio)

Arshile Gorky, “Enigmatic Combat” 

Link to original artwork here.

(via Instagram)

Chris Johanson

Untitled (Figures with black presence)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Chris Johanson