The Art of Skyscrapers

Georgia O’Keeffe’s fascination began in the 1920s. From 1926-1929 O'Keeffe produced several paintings of New York skyscrapers and cityscape scenes looking out from her apartment window in the Shelton Hotel Skyscrapers. Having been influenced by Alfred Stieglitz, a former lover and skyscraper photographer, she created paintings of skyscrapers in New York which often worked to create a sense of wonder. O’Keeffe’s images employed photographic techniques such as vertical convergence and lens flares in order to individualize her works. She would later cease painting the New York Skyscrapers around the same time as the stock market crash of 1929.