At the DIA, O'Keeffe's Real Subject Turns Out to Be a Doorway

A new exhibition at the DIA moves past the flower canvases most collectors know Georgia O'Keeffe for and turns instead to her architecture. The show follows her eye from the vertical lines of early New York towers to a single dark doorway at her home in New Mexico. Both settings, the exhibition argues, gave the artist some of her most compelling forms. It is a reminder that O'Keeffe's modernism was built as much from buildings as from blossoms.

With reporting from Galerie.