09 October 2024
Georgia O'Keeffe Paintings of a Beloved New York Get Their Due in a Major Museum Show
When it opened in 1923, New York's Shelton Hotel was the tallest residential skyscraper in the world, and the following year, a 37-year-old Georgia O'Keeffe became one of its residents. Several of the works in O'Keeffe's latest retrospective, My New Yorks, coming soon to Atlanta's High Museum of Art, are views from the artist's 30th-floor apartment or views of the Shelton from the New York streets. The Shelton with Sunspots, N.Y. (1936) was one of the artist's personal favorites of her long career.
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