Which New York landmark inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's city paintings?

The Shelton Hotel inspired Georgia O'Keeffe's city paintings.

O'Keeffe lived at the Shelton Hotel in Manhattan during the 1920s, and its architecture became a major subject in her work. The building, now known as the New Yorker Hotel? No—the Shelton was a separate hotel at 49th Street and Lexington Avenue, and it was later demolished.

From her high-floor rooms, O'Keeffe looked at the city through windows and across rooftops. She transformed the hotel and surrounding buildings into bold compositions of vertical lines, geometric shapes, and nighttime light.

These works are important because they show that O'Keeffe was not only a painter of flowers and desert landscapes. Her New York pictures made modern urban architecture a central subject in American art. The Shelton is therefore more specific than naming a famous skyscraper she did not use as the primary answer.