Georgia O'Keeffe’s 1915 series known for pioneering abstract American art is called Specials.
The charcoal drawings in the Specials series grew from O'Keeffe’s decision to work without directly copying the visible world. They use simplified shapes, flowing contours, and tonal contrasts to express ideas and sensations through abstraction.
O'Keeffe sent some of these drawings to Anita Pollitzer, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz exhibited them at his New York gallery in 1916, an important early public presentation of her work. The drawings helped establish her as a distinctive modernist voice.
The series is sometimes overshadowed by her later flower paintings, but it was crucial to her early reputation. Specials refers to a group of drawings, not to a single painting or a general label for all of her abstract works.