START WITH ART: Manhattan

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We're starting our today by examining Georgia O'Keefe's painting pictured below. Take a look at the piece titled "Manhattan," then read the questions to the students/children in your life and see how starting your day with art can ignite creativity and critical thinking!

Title: Manhattan

Artist: Georgia O'Keefe

Date: 1932

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 214.3 x 122.4 cm

Start with Art Questions: 

• This painting is a cityscape of New York City. What architectural details do you see in the painting? 

• Did you notice the roses in the painting? What do you think the roses symbolize?

• In the mid-1920s, Georgia O'Keefe and her husband Alfred Stieglitz, had an apartment on the thirtieth floor of the Shelton Hotel in New York. Do you think this might be a view from her window? What do you think her skyscraper apartment might have looked like? 

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