Which U.S. city did Georgia O'Keeffe paint in her series of skyscraper pictures?

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Georgia O'Keeffe painted her skyscraper series in New York City.

O'Keeffe moved to New York in 1918 and lived there for extended periods during the 1920s and 1930s. The city's towers, including the Shelton Hotel where she and Alfred Stieglitz lived, became subjects for paintings that translated architecture into bold vertical and geometric forms.

Her New York works belong to the same broad modernist career that included flowers and Southwestern landscapes. Rather than treating skyscrapers as ordinary city views, she emphasized their height, surfaces, patterns, and relationship to the sky. The urban paintings helped establish her as an important American modernist.

Chicago is a common mix-up because O'Keeffe attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago early in her education. New Mexico is another because it became central to her later art. The skyscraper pictures, however, are associated with New York City.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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