What artistic movement is Georgia O'Keeffe commonly associated with?

Georgia O'Keeffe is commonly associated with American modernism. Her paintings used simplified forms, enlarged details, strong contours, and abstract relationships rather than following academic realism.

O'Keeffe emerged in the 1910s, when American artists were exploring new approaches influenced by European avant-garde art. Her charcoal abstractions and watercolors attracted Alfred Stieglitz's attention, and his gallery presented her as a major new voice in American art.

She is often labeled a painter of flowers, but that description is incomplete. O'Keeffe also painted New York buildings, animal bones, desert landscapes, clouds, and abstract shapes. Critics sometimes connected her flower paintings to symbolism or psychoanalysis, but O'Keeffe rejected many imposed interpretations. “American modernism” is the broad art-historical category, not a claim that every work was purely abstract.