Which city skyline inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's Radiator Building—Night, New York?

New York City inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's Radiator Building—Night, New York.

O'Keeffe painted the work in 1927, depicting the American Radiator Building in Manhattan at night. The building's dark silhouette, glowing windows, and red-and-black architectural pattern fit her interest in the visual energy of New York, where she lived for periods after moving there in the 1920s.

The painting belongs to a group of urban works that contrasts with O'Keeffe's later desert imagery. New York was not merely a place she passed through: its skyscrapers and nighttime light became subjects in their own right. The American Radiator Building is now known as the American Standard Building, but O'Keeffe's title preserves the name used when she painted it.