Georgia O'Keeffe's first abstract charcoal drawing series, exhibited in 1916, was titled Specials.
O'Keeffe made the charcoal drawings in 1915 while teaching in South Carolina. They reduced landscape and natural forms to lines, curves, and tonal contrasts rather than representing recognizable objects in a conventional way.
She sent the drawings to her friend Anita Pollitzer, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz exhibited them at his 291 gallery in New York in 1916, making O'Keeffe one of the first American artists to work in a fully abstract mode.
The series is sometimes described generally as her early abstractions, but Specials is the specific title used for the group. It should not be confused with later bodies of work or with the broader term “abstraction,” which describes a style rather than the series title.