City Night (1926)
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986
Oil on Canvas, 30"x48", Minneapolis Institute of Arts
While best known for her large scale flowers, American artist Georgia O’Keeffe also painted a significant number of works featuring New York City buildings. She felt the skyscraper was a uniquely American symbol, and was influenced by the techniques of her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. She therefore understood the distortions in linear perspective produced by camera angles. In this painting, the vertical convergence of the buildings convey a cavernous and foreboding image--the white light shines as a beacon of hope in the night, representative of her fascination with how the buildings represented the progress of civilization.
Oil on Canvas, 30"x48", Minneapolis Institute of Arts
While best known for her large scale flowers, American artist Georgia O’Keeffe also painted a significant number of works featuring New York City buildings. She felt the skyscraper was a uniquely American symbol, and was influenced by the techniques of her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. She therefore understood the distortions in linear perspective produced by camera angles. In this painting, the vertical convergence of the buildings convey a cavernous and foreboding image--the white light shines as a beacon of hope in the night, representative of her fascination with how the buildings represented the progress of civilization.
Cold City Night
Nancy Patrick Carney Acrylic on canvas 22”x 26” Georgia’s City Night is in New York – mine is in Minneapolis on a cold clear night as the moon slips silently over the quiet city. |
City Night, After O’Keeffe
Calvin deRuyter
Watercolor on paper, mounted and waxed 30”x22” The modern city is stark and monolithic, only the lights indicating the continued presence of organic life forms. |
Ancient Big Cedars
Emily Donovan Acrylic on canvas 20” x 26” My amazement moves away from the man-made structures that fill our cities but instead, to the ancient cedars that cling to the steep side of my hiking trail in nature. |
Minneapolis at Night
Susan Fryer Voigt Acrylic on canvas 24”x48” This painting depicts Georgia O’Keeffe’s knowledge of how buildings tilt and shapes foreshorten when photographed from below. |
Moonlight Over Manhattan
Pamela Weisdorf Mixed media on panel 18” x 24 ½” Georgia O’Keeffe was a master at creating highly expanded and focused images that took abstraction almost to the edge of its identity. I find her strong sense of feminism in the soaring skyscrapers of Manhattan. |
Minneapolis Cityscape
Emmy White Watercolor with acrylic varnish finish 32”X24” Georgia O'Keeffe tried her hand at the New York High Buildings. Her sense of wonder, declares the full moon. As a Minneapolis cityscape lover, I paint the Guthrie theater with a few variations. |
