This survey incorporates current scholarship and benefits from recent publication of O'Keeffe's catalogue raisonne. It analyzes her most important pictures in depth, and highlights recurring themes and images. Her relationships with fellow artists, particularly Alfred Stieglitz, are also explored.
This biography draws on many sources closed to writers during O'Keeffe's lifetime and has the co-operation of the O'Keeffe family. O'Keeffe's life spanned nearly a century of ferment and change in America and although part of the modernist movement she established her own unique vision.
This ground-breaking volume, the first to consider Georgia O'Keeffe's works on paper, explores the media of watercolour, charcoal, pencil and pastel. O'Keeffe, an artist of immense stature in twentieth-century art, is known primarily as a painter. However, her earliest mature works, which led to her first New York exhibitions and initial acclaim, were works on paper as well, and resumed her ...
Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes and stark white cow skulls are seminal works of modern art. This biography offers a portrayal of her life.