{"id":34103,"date":"2019-12-26T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=34103"},"modified":"2019-12-31T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:39:22","slug":"georgia-okeeffes-orchids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/26\/georgia-okeeffes-orchids\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe&#8217;s Orchids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary American artist Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe painted extraordinary flowers, including orchids. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalnow.com\/lifestyles\/home-garden\/orchids-painter-o-keeffe-had-a-big-impact-in-the\/article_57c4165c-23c1-53c9-8fcd-1d1f2425212e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The <em>Winston-Salem Journal<\/em> analyzes two of her portrayals of Cattleya hybrids.<\/a> The first, <a href=\"https:\/\/artmuseum.princeton.edu\/collections\/objects\/14878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Narcissa\u2019s Last Orchid<\/em><\/a>, 1940,\u00a0 is depicted realistically. The second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgiaokeeffe.org\/orchid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>An Orchid<\/em><\/a>, 1941, is more abstract. Both paintings focus on the frilly flower lips. Orchid expert Arthur Chadwick ponders which varieties inspired these works. At the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleyas<\/a> were popular as corsages. To learn more, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okeeffemuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary American artist Georgia O&#8217;Keeffe painted extraordinary flowers, including orchids. The Winston-Salem Journal analyzes two of her portrayals of Cattleya hybrids. The first, Narcissa\u2019s Last Orchid, 1940,\u00a0 is depicted realistically. The second, An Orchid, 1941, is more abstract. Both paintings focus on the frilly flower lips. Orchid expert Arthur Chadwick ponders which varieties inspired these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34103"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34124,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34103\/revisions\/34124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}