Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy

Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy — Georgia O'Keeffe. 1928.

Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 76.5 × 101.6 cm (29 7/8 × 39 7/8 in.).

Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

In Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy , Georgia O’Keeffe painted the vividly colored leaves and white flower at a significantly magnified scale. She was inspired by the foliage she found on her walks in the summer around Lake George in upstate New York. Although she represented the leaves with carefully realistic handling, the close focus underscores their abstract qualities. She hoped that the strangely monumental subjects would inspire viewers to, as she said, “be surprised into taking time to look” at them in a new way.

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