getting an idea to make progress on this list, I’ll try to find fifty female artists that either interest me, or who create art that strikes me. First, Georgia O’Keffe. For awhile, I’ve considered her my favorite artist. But I knew little about her work beyond being able to identify it by her style. She is considered a major artist since the 1920s. Much of her paintings use an abstract language of color, line, and shape. These elements make forms of natural shape the subjects of pieces. Her landscapes are composed mainly of flowers and skulls, with shells. I found it interesting that when her eyesight started to become less clear, her medium of choice was no longer only painting. She used clay too, and created pottery.

A quote of hers, “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”