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This study examined a possibility of using colors in psychological diagnosis or as a treatment by analyzing O'Keeffe's works showing sensual and sexual expressions of women's sexuality through metaphorical cropped techniques( a photo technique). Her works were analyzed in terms of the characteristics of the colors, formation of the unique colors, main colors, and the analysis of her psyche along the course of her life and the time setting. Her life was divided into three periods in this study: the formation period (before she met her husband Stieglitz who caused great change in the themes and colors of her works), the passionate period (after she met her husband), and the mature period (after her husband's death). Eight of her works representing each period were chosen, which made a total of 24 paintings. The paintings were analyzed with Suenaga's Heart & Color Method. The findings of the analysis are as follows. First, in the formation period, O'Keeffe emphasized emotional richness and softness using warm and cool tones of ink and wash painting. Angled charts expressed her extraversion, Emotional softness was often expressed in her use of low saturated colors using the high and low lightness of 1 to 9 in charcoal drawing. Second, in the passionate period, she used bold colors and showed abstract expressions of objects to express women's rights and the freedom of expression. Vivid colors used in this period conveyed her mental positiveness and exuberance of energy. In difficult times, she used smoky gray tones to express her feelings, and as she survived a tumor operation, she expressed her sense of relief and hope in tender colors. Third, in the mature period, a surrealistic tendency appeared with elegant and delicate colors. Angled charts expressed extraversion. Circular charts expressed in splendid colors of nature reflected from the sunlight of New Mexico conveyed her relaxed psyche and calmly settled sensitivity coming from her free life. In tone chart, O'keeffe combined a pure 3-dimensional space with landscapes of New Mexico and images related to growth, reflecting a state of unconsciousness and consciousness of her time with colors and themes.