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Mar 28, 2019 · Among the most spectacular of these is Ritz Tower, a painting recently acquired by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. The drama of soaring stone is combined with moon-swept clouds and electric light to evoke the spirit of the modern metropolis.
- Ritz Tower, 1928
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe A nocturne painting of a tall...
- Ritz Tower, 1928
Georgia O'Keeffe also depicted the building in her 1920s painting Ritz Tower, Night. The building continued to be critically appraised in later years. Elizabeth Hawes wrote that the Ritz Tower's construction "changed the direction of residential architecture" with its vertical emphasis.
Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe A nocturne painting of a tall cylindrical stacked skyscraper in black shadow with various floors of illuminated windows. Visible behind the Ritz Tower, is a darkened sky with a channel of horizontal flowing clouds in blue and white which partially obscure the moon.
A nocturne painting of a tall cylindrical stacked skyscraper in black shadow with various floors of illuminated windows. Visible behind the Ritz Tower, is a darkened sky with a channel of...
Mar 8, 2019 · Soulful and dramatic, O'Keeffe's Ritz Tower (1928) captures an enigmatic view of the newly constructed luxury apartment hotel at East 57th Street and Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan.
Georgia O'Keeffe created a series of paintings of skyscrapers in New York City between 1925 and 1929. They were made after O'Keeffe moved with her new husband into an apartment on the 30th floor of the Shelton Hotel, which gave her expansive views of all but the west side of the city.
Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 – March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.
