Skyscrapers and smokestacks: the grittier side of Georgia O’Keeffe

Photo: Georgia O’Keeffe in black hat, against wooden doorjamb. Photo credit: Palladium print by Alfred Stieglitz / Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection / Wikimedia Commons (MET, 1997.61.66). CC0 1.0 Universal. Article by Veronica Esposito. The Guardian – September 8, 2026.

Georgia O’Keeffe is celebrated for her ethereal depictions of flowers, sunlight, landscapes and animal bones, their gracefully swooping forms dripping with organic curves and seemingly on the verge of melting before our eyes. Such an approach would seem to be quite at odds with the firm, straight lines of farmhouses and barns, to say nothing of the electrified skyscrapers of New York City – and yet that is exactly what is centered in Georgia O’Keeffe: Architecture, a new show at the Detroit Institute of Arts (Dia). […]

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