Specials was the title associated with Georgia O'Keeffe's first known abstract drawing series, made in 1915.
The series consisted of charcoal drawings created while O'Keeffe was teaching art in South Carolina. Rather than depicting recognizable objects, the works used lines, arcs, and shifting shapes to explore visual rhythm and emotion. They were a decisive break from the academic realism emphasized in much of her earlier training.
O'Keeffe sent some of these drawings to her friend Anita Pollitzer, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz in New York. Stieglitz was impressed and exhibited them at his gallery 291 in 1916. That connection launched O'Keeffe's professional relationship with Stieglitz and helped bring her work into the modernist art world.
The title “Specials” can be confused with later series names such as Music, but the important distinction is chronology: these 1915 drawings belong to her earliest mature experiments with abstraction.