Art History News: Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture

Detroit Institute of Arts

September 11, 2026 – January 3, 2027

Georgia O'Keeffe: Architecture is a groundbreaking exhibition that showcases approximately 35 architectural paintings created from the 1920s –1960s. O'Keeffe, a pioneer of modern art, celebrated the beauty and complexity of the built environments she inhabited through these remarkable works.

Throughout her long career, the artist found inspiration through close observations of her surroundings, both natural and manmade. She returned many times to architectural subjects with the same powerful, abstract style used for her well-known depictions of flowers and desert landscapes.

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Georgia O'Keeffe, Brooklyn Bridge, 1949. Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Mary Childs Draper

Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Door with Red, 1954. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Bequest of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Wall with Green Door, 1953. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Woodward Foundation)

Georgia O'Keeffe, In the Patio III, 1948. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation

Georgia O'Keeffe, New York Street with Moon, 1925. Carmen Thyssen Collection, Madrid

Georgia O'Keeffe, East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel, 1928. New Britain Museum of American Art, Stephen B. Lawrence Fund

Georgia O'Keeffe, Taos Pueblo, 1929/1934. Collection of the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis

Georgia O'Keeffe, Ranchos Church, No. II, NM, 1929.
The Philips Collections, Washington, DC, Acquired 1930

Georgia O'Keeffe, My Shanty, Lake George, 1922. The Philips Collections, Washington, DC, Acquired 1926

Georgia O'Keeffe, Stables, 1932. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert Tannahill, 45.454

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Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture