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The painting uses colors with an intent to capture the variance of tones that one would find in music. O'Keeffe described music as being able to be "translated into something for the eye".
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The painting is part of the Alfred Stieglitz collection, a gift by the artist to the museum in memory of her husband.
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uses the contrast of hard and soft edges and geometric forms to convey the rhythm and movement of music.
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58.4 cm × 48.3 cm (23.0 in × 19.0 in)
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This piece was made while O'Keeffe was living in New York with
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Georgia O'Keeffe
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago
Georgia O'Keeffe
Alfred Stieglitz
"At Tate Modern, an Attempt to Free Georgia O'Keeffe's Art from an Erotic Interpretation"


Blue and Green Music
Art Institute of Chicago
"MoMA | Inventing Abstraction"
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Georgia O'Keeffe
The Flag
Red and Orange Streak
Blue and Green Music
A Storm
My Shanty, Lake George
Black Iris
Oriental Poppies
The Lawrence Tree
Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue
Jimson Weed
Summer Days
Early works
University of Virginia, 1912–1914
Charcoal drawings

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