Georgia O'Keefe: Sky Above Clouds-- An essay about O'Keefe's 1965 painting Sky Above clouds IV.

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While there might be something heroic about it, today it is not very likely that an abstract painter is would become a cultural heroine. But that is what Georgia O'Keefe became, a model of the modern liberated woman, compared by some to the dancer Isador Duncan and the writer Gertrude Stein (Honour and Flemming 695-96). O'Keefe is considered one of the earliest abstract painters on the United States. But to achieve this was not an …

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…people, and be impactful. Work Sited: H.H. Arnason. History of Modern Art Third Edition, Prentice Hall Inc. Simon and Schuster/Viacom, 1986. Hugh Honour and John Fleming. The Visual Arts: A History Third Edition Prentice Hall Inc. Simon and Schuster/Viacom, 1991. Georgia O'Keefe. Georgia O'Keefe, Viking Press, 1976. Scott Speh. The Whitney Biennial, FGA, Number 10, April, 2002. www.spaces.org/rants/fga10.htm Mike Wolf. Sky Above the Clouds, NCA April. 2002. www.stopgostop.com/nca/skyabove.html