Black Cross, New Mexico
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986)
1929
On view — Gallery 161 at the Art Institute of Chicago.
“For me, painting the crosses was a way of painting the country,” recalled Georgia O’Keeffe about the series of compositions featuring Catholic crosses that she created upon visiting the Southwest in 1929. In Black Cross, New Mexico , she contrasted the handmade cross, magnified in scale and…
Description courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 99.4 × 76.2 cm (39 1/8 × 30 in.)
- Origin
- New Mexico