Yellow Horizon and Clouds

Georgia O'Keeffe spent much of her later years traveling by plane, and those flights opened up a fresh subject for her to explore. Painted in 1942, this canvas records what she glimpsed from her window: an endless field of pale clouds drifting below, topped by a slim ribbon of yellow and green where the earth meets the sky. Above it all, the blue deepens as the eye moves upward, giving the scene a hushed, floating quality.

Famous for her larger than life flowers and the sun baked hills of New Mexico, O'Keeffe had a knack for stripping a scene down to its simplest forms and letting color do the talking. This time she swapped desert ground for open air, yet her calm way of seeing carries right through. The clouds feel soft and weightless, more like a mood than a place, capturing the strange peace of being high above the world.