Specials is the 1915 series of abstract charcoal drawings that made Georgia O'Keeffe a modern-art pioneer.
O'Keeffe created the series while teaching in South Carolina, using charcoal to explore line, rhythm, and movement without depicting recognizable objects. The drawings were radical for their time because they presented abstraction as a primary artistic language rather than as a decorative treatment of a subject.
She mailed some of these drawings to her friend Anita Pollitzer, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz in New York. Stieglitz exhibited them at his gallery 291 in 1916, bringing O'Keeffe national attention. He later called her one of the first American artists to make purely abstract work.
The series is often discussed alongside later paintings such as Music—Pink and Blue No. 2, but those are not the same group of works. Specials refers specifically to the 1915 charcoal drawings and is a key title in accounts of O'Keeffe's early career.