Which artist created the 1918 painting Blue and Green Music?

Georgia O'Keeffe created the 1918 painting Blue and Green Music.

Blue and Green Music is an abstract oil painting in which flowing bands of blue and green suggest movement and musical rhythm without depicting a recognizable scene. O'Keeffe often described her aim as translating sensations and experiences into visual form rather than illustrating a literal subject.

The work belongs to an important period in her development. Around 1915 and 1916, she produced influential charcoal abstractions that helped establish her as a pioneering American modernist. By 1918, she was extending those ideas into color and larger painted compositions.

The title can lead viewers to associate the work with Wassily Kandinsky, whose art also explored connections between color, form, and music. However, Blue and Green Music is by O'Keeffe. It demonstrates that her career included substantial abstraction long before the flower paintings for which she later became especially famous.