Continuing to honor women painters for Women’s History Month, let’s visit a work by Georgia O’Keefe (1897 - 1986). Often called the “mother of American Modernism,” Georgia O’Keeffe developed a groundbreaking abstract style defined by distilled landscapes and large-scale depictions of flowers and animal bones—transforming ordinary subjects into monumental forms. From early on, O’Keeffe understood the importance of both financial and creative independence. She learned valuable