“It is only by selection, by elimination, and by emphasis that we get at the real meaning of things.” Georgia O’Keeffe’s statement, published in the New York Sun in 1922, succinctly reveals her ambition to elegantly streamline her compositions. Here O’Keeffe distills her subject matter, an apple and plate still life, to its essence. This stripping of pretense presents an evocative image of two objects interacting to create a design-based poetic harmony. O’Keeffe’s ability to render her realistic subjects both tangible and abstract is what qualifies her as one of the pioneers of American modernism.
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