Before her 1970 retrospective at the Whitney, Georgia O’Keeffe suggested—maybe not in jest—that she’d never topped her early drawings and watercolors. A new exhibition at MuseumModernArt shows that it might be true.
’s new show of the artist’s works on paper, to see that she was wrong about her own talents. This is nothing unusual. Mark Twain was sure that his masterpiece was a soggy thing called “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” Susan Sontag thought that she was a great novelist whom the world had mistaken for an essayist.
With O’Keeffe’s works on paper, however, scrutiny is like oxygen. These are images so dense with detail that the poster treatment would ruin them. “No. 12 Special” is like a glossary of the footprints that charcoal can leave on paper: thin, slashing lines; plump, leisurely ones; smears pressed into the grain of the page with a rag or a fingertip.
The cozy-hermit thing is one O’Keeffe stereotype. Another is the notion that her art was technically unexciting. I’d say that this is basically true of her oil paintings, less true of her works on paper in general, and wrong of her watercolors, though with a few provisos. Watercolors can’t be erased or endlessly painted over, and sometimes the only way of knowing exactly how the pigments will look is to wait and see. O’Keeffe is often called “intuitive,” sometimes with a hint of condescension.
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