RUBY TUESDAY - GHOST PAINTING after GEORGIA O'KEEFFE

    O'Keeffe and Abiquiu house:  "The wall with a door in it was something I had to have - it took me 10 years to get it...after that the wall with a door was painted many times".

    (Below:   Black Door with Red (Oil on canvas 48x84 in.1954 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk,Virginia).

    Relaxing at home over a snifter of brandy, following a visit to the Whitney Museum NY to catch the Georgia O'keeffe exhibit, my friend MFH noticed how the painting above is reflected when looking at it through the brandy.    Ha!  A new abstraction of The Door.   Not only that, the first photograph produced the ghost passing through it - how fitting!     (O'KEEFFE ABSTRACTIONS travels to The Phillips Collection in Washington DC  February 6 - May 9)

     So, one image led to another, and another...

The art world, and one or two of my friends, still find it difficult to consider O'Keeffe's work worthy of the attention she has had throughout her career.   O'Keeffe would accept none of it - she saw that audience associations with gender, erotic relationships (and personal relationships) limited the possibility of looking at her painting, free of such issues, and seeing what SHE saw.

    So, forgetting the alcoholic relationship here, this is what I saw!  Lots of red for Ruby Tuesday.




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