Upcoming Exhibition

A Circle that Nothing Can Break

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November 7, 2024 - October 31, 2025

Santa Fe, NM

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Vertical oil painting with two distinct bluish lines that run down the center of the canvas. Peeping out of these lines are two small half spheres in pink, as if emerging from behind curtains, located in the upper center of the painting.

A Circle that Nothing Can Break explores how Georgia O’Keeffe imbued shapes—the circle in particular—with emotional symbolism and abstract ideas. Circles and spirals appeared repeatedly in O’Keeffe’s drawings of the 1910s; however, the motif all but disappeared from her work in 1946. In the 1970s, near the close of her career, she returned to the theme. Including works never exhibited during her lifetime, this exhibition delves into a vitally significant theme in her life and artistic career.

wo dark green patches of paint run vertically down the paper. A red circle is located in between the two patches. The area above the red circle is painted in a soft pink hue, while the area below the circle is yellowish in color.
Georgia O’Keeffe. Abstraction Dark Green Lines with Red and Pink, 1970s. Watercolor on paper, 29 7/8 x 21 7/8 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.519]
Vertical oil painting with two distinct bluish lines that run down the center of the canvas. Peeping out of these lines are two small half spheres in pink, as if emerging from behind curtains, located in the upper center of the painting.
Georgia O’Keeffe. Green Lines and Pink, 1919. Oil on canvas, 18 x 10 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [1997.5.7]
Watercolor of three broad, blue horizontal lines in the center, with a blue circle above and below the lines, the bottom slightly larger and touching the bottom line. A few paint drops next to the bottom circle and below the bottom line.
Georgia O’Keeffe. From a Day at Esther’s, 1976-1977. Watercolor on paper, 22 1/2 x 29 7/8 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.473]