Georgia O’Keeffe in New York City, circa 1944. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

The widespread understanding of Georgia O’Keeffe’s oeuvre is incomplete. The great modernist abstractionist is, rightfully so, galvanized as a painter of abstract floral compositions. Closely cropped compositions of flora, rendered in hard-edged oil paint or watercolor, are the titular artworks associated with the artist’s name. They are remarkable, but much like the compositions themselves, they do not show the artist in her entirety. Beyond her flora paintings, O’Keeffe has a prolific and prodigious career in landscape and cityscape painting—the subject of “Georgia O’Keeffe: My New Yorks” now on at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

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This exhibition functions as a kind of retrospective—which is to say, the artworks proceed chronologically through a five-year span of O’Keeffe’s life, beginning in 1924 when O’Keeffe and her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, moved........

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