Georgia O’Keeffe

The Late Work
An unprecedented examination of the underexplored late work of the iconic American modernist

Griffins study of OKeeffes later works is a revelation, opening new dimensions of this iconic American modernist as she grappled with age and creative evolution. A must-read.Megan Fox Kelly, Observer, Art Books Defining 2025

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986) has long been celebrated for her paintings, photographs, and contributions to American modernism in the 1930s and early 1940s, yet her work from the end of World War II through the early 1980s has been largely neglected. In this groundbreaking study, Randall C. Griffin focuses on the major pictorial series that OKeeffe produced throughout her later careermysterious abstract depictions of her house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, and its surrounding landscape; voluptuous aerial representations of rivers, skies, and canyons in Arizona; Buddhist-informed depi