What is the title of Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1919 painting of a blue-and-green abstract form?

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1919 painting of a blue-and-green abstract form is titled Blue and Green Music.

The work belongs to O’Keeffe’s early abstract period, when she used flowing shapes and intense color rather than recognizable objects. Its title connects visual movement with music, a recurring idea in discussions of her work and in the broader American modernist interest in translating one art form into another.

O’Keeffe did not treat abstraction as a code with one fixed literal subject. Instead, the painting uses color, rhythm, and curving forms to create a visual experience. That makes it different from her later flower and landscape paintings, even though the same interest in organic shapes remains.

The title is sometimes confused with other works containing color names or musical references. The full title is Blue and Green Music, not simply Blue Music or Green Abstraction.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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