Samantha Friedman

In 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe wrote to Alfred Stieglitz that she had "made [a] drawing several times - never remembering that I had made it before - and not knowing where the idea came from." These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolour, pastel, and graphite, belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie...

One day, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) cut a small bird out of a piece of white paper. It was a simple shape, but he liked the way it looked and did not want to throw it away, so he pinned it to the wall of his room. But the bird looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes...

During the 1920s, Georgia O'Keeffe became widely known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, and these canvases arguably remain her most iconic today. But she regularly returned to abstraction—the language of her breakthrough drawings from the 1910s. Executed in 1927, Abstraction Blue retains the glowing colour, careful modulation, and zoomed-in view of the artist's contemporaneous blooms, while foregoing any obligation...

What Degas Saw looks at the world through a beloved artist's eyes and provides insight into his creative process. Walking through the streets of Paris with cape and cane, the French artist Edgar Degas observes the world around him, finding inspiration at every turn. From the blurry faces of passersby glimpsed through a bus window to the sundappled landscape seen...