Georgia O'Keeffe painted Blue and Green Music in 1919.
The work belongs to her early period of abstract experimentation, when she used color, line, and shape to suggest sensations rather than depict a clearly recognizable object. Its title connects visual composition with musical ideas, a recurring theme in discussions of her abstractions.
O'Keeffe made the painting shortly after her first solo exhibition and during the period when Alfred Stieglitz became an important supporter of her work. Her early abstractions helped make her one of the first American artists recognized for nonrepresentational imagery.
The title can lead readers to associate the work with later musical abstraction by other artists. Blue and Green Music is specifically O'Keeffe's 1919 painting, not a literal picture of instruments or performers.