A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills 1946

"A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills" is a 1946 painting by renowned American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. This artwork, rendered in O'Keeffe's signature style, features a starkly simple composition, highlighting a solitary black bird in flight against a backdrop of muted blues and whites. The bird, depicted with minimal detail, dominates the upper half of the canvas, emphasizing its isolation and presence in the vastness of the sky. The soft blue gradient, suggestive of the sky, transitions seamlessly into the snow-covered red hills, giving the piece a sense of depth and scale, characteristic of O'Keeffe's landscapes.