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Georgia O'Keeffe: Before I put...

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Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, Is this mine? . . . Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? . . . I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

Source: In New York World, 16 Mar 1930.
-- Georgia O'Keeffe, (Nov 15 1887-1986), US painter; She was one of the founders of Modernism and best known for Black Iris, 1926 and Cow's Skull, 1931.


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