Art Abstracts: Cos Cob

POSTED ON MARCH 16, 2015

Looking for the answer to Art Abstracts? Its Cos Cob by Georgia OKeeffe!
Are you getting tired of us talking about Georgia OKeeffe yet? Too bad! In the
spring of 1922, OKeeffe visited the artists colony at Cos Cob, a small rural area
just outside Greenwich, Connecticut.
Her interest lay in the individual beauty of the regions more unusual plants,
including the skunk cabbage depicted in Cos Cob. For locals, the skunk cabbage
is a harbinger of spring as its first dark green shoots emerge in February. OKeeffe
painted skunk cabbage repeatedly, abstracting the image in simplified forms and
a restricted palette, as she sought to capture the inner vitality and potential
energy contained in each curled leaf. The painting is typical of the artists interest
in up-close portraits of flora.
IMAGE CREDIT
Georgia OKeeffe (U.S.)
Cos Cob, 1926
Oil on Canvas, 16 x 12 in.
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman
Purchase, U.S. State Department Collection, 1948