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“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

Calla Lilies

How the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe’s floral paintings came to symbolize women’s liberation in the 1920s.

Georgia O'Keeffe - Blue Morning Glories (1935)

Nearly 80 years ago, artist Georgia O’Keeffe produced paintings that displayed her ability to capture the spirit of any environment.

“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Series I—No. 3, 1918.

I first “found” American painter Georgia O’Keeffe in my teen years and quickly learned to love her paintings, bold images of shells, bones, flowers, and landscapes loaded with personal style, and terrific composition and colors. My “point-of-entry” into O’Keeffe’s artistic universe was “Red Hill and White Shell” on the cover of a book in the art section of a high-end bookstore in Rio de Janeiro. That painting acted like a powerful magnet, pulling me closer to inspect the book in more detail…