During the 1920s Georgia O'Keeffe became widely-known for her paintings of enlarged flowers
and these canvases arguably remain her most iconic today. But she regularly returned to
abstraction?the language of her breakthrough drawings from the 1910s. Executed in 1927
Abstraction Blue retains the glowing color careful modulation and zoomed-in view of the
artist's contemporaneous blooms while foregoing any obligation toward representation. In this
volume of the MoMA One on One series curator Samantha Friedman considers how these and other
factors converged in the creation of this composition.
