“At first I painted a horses [bone] head and then I got this cows head, and I had this cows head painted against the blue . . . and I thought, well I have to do something else about that. And that was at the time that the men were all talking about the great American novel, the great American play, the great American, oh, it was the great American everything. . . .

So I thought Ill make my picture a red, white, and blue (laughs), Ill make it an American painting. . . . I put a red stripe down each side. It entertained me, but I dont think anybody else caught on to it for quite a while.”

—Georgia O’Keeffe, from the documentary Georgia O’Keeffe, (60 min), 1977.