Georgia O'Keeffe Works on Paper

Vintage hardcover book, Georgia O’Keeffe: Works on Paper. Published by Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, 1985. Second printing. 112 pages with thirty-one color plates and twenty-one duotones.

A landmark publication and the first to focus exclusively on Georgia O’Keeffe’s works on paper, this exhibition catalog reveals a lesser-known side of the artist’s practice through watercolor, charcoal, pencil, and pastel. Spanning early nature studies to late abstractions, the volume traces her evolution across media with a sharp eye toward gesture, structure, and poetic reduction.

“Extreme simplification and almost decorative flatness”—O’Keeffe’s paper works reveal the same elemental clarity found in her oil paintings, but with an immediacy that feels both experimental and deeply personal.