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Georgia O’Keeffe Poster, “Ladder to the Moon” - $134 (Wedgwood)
40th Ave. NE near NE 80th St.
condition:
excellent
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Poster for the second season of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, held from June 30 to August 4, 1974.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s lush, symbolic paintings of flowers and the American Southwest are some of the most instantly recognizable works of the 20th century. The late artist imbued all her landscapes and close-up depictions of nature with a sense of mythological power.
O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League in New York. In 1949 she permanently moved to New Mexico.
The original painting used in this poster is in the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The painting shows a handmade wooden ladder suspended in the turquoise sky. In the background are the pitch-black Pedernal Mountains and a pearl-colored half-moon. In Pueblo culture, the ladder is used to symbolize the link between the Pueblos and cosmic forces.
For me it represented my aspiration to write and get a book published —it was my inspiration, that if I just stretched myself enough, I could do it. And I did! Time now to let it inspire someone else.
Medium: Offset lithograph
Framed in silver aluminum and plexiglass
Dimensions framed: 36” tall x 24” wide
$134 cash only