Black Cross, New Mexico By Georgia O'Keeffe
Black Cross, New Mexico was created by modern artist Georgia O’Keeffe in 1929. The painting depicts what O’Keeffe encountered during late-night walks in the desert which would have been crosses erected near remote moradas, or chapels, by secret Catholic lay brotherhoods called Penitentes. As O’Keeffe approached all of her subjects, whether buildings or flowers, landscapes or bones, …