Portrait
of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle
Book Description Georgia O'Keeffe, one of the most original
painters America has ever produced, left behind a remarkable legacy when
she died at the age of ninety-eight. Her vivid visual vocabulary -- sensuous
flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earth -- had a stunning, profound,
and lasting influence on American art in this century.
O'Keeffe's personal mystique is as intriguing and enduring as her bold,
brilliant canvases. Here is the first full account of her exceptional life
-- from her girlhood and...
Paperback: 512 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x
8.23 x 5.32
Publisher: Washington Square Press; Revised and Updated
edition (October 1997)
ISBN: 0671016660
Maria
Chabot--Georgia O'Keeffe: Correspondence 1941-1949 by Barbara
Buhler Lynes, Ann
Paden, Georgia
O'Keeffe, MARIA
CHABOT Book Description
Maria Chabot met Georgia O'Keeffe in Northern New Mexico
in 1940. O'Keeffe, one of America's most celebrated artists, was fifty-three
and had just purchased a house at Ghost Ranch where she had painted over
several previous summers. Chabot, a San Antonian and an aspiring but unknown
writer, was a robust twenty-six and familiar with the largely Spanish-speaking
culture of the region.
The two were drawn to each other for different reasons.
To be free to paint, O'Keeffe needed capable help to sustain and provision
her remote household, and although Chabot needed a place to live where
she could pursue her writing with minimum distraction, she was also seeking
a mentor.
For four summers beginning in 1941, when O'Keeffe was
in New Mexico, Chabot lived with the artist at Ghost Ranch, managing her
house and guests, and organizing the famed camping-painting trips from
which came some of O'Keeffe's most distinguished works of the period. In
1946, Chabot agreed to conceive and oversee the reconstruction of a ruined
adobe house in Abiquiu, NM, that would become O'Keeffe's permanent home
in 1949.
During the periods when O'Keeffe was in New York where
she lived with her husband, famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz, the two
women wrote each other with remarkable frequency. Their letters describe
their love for northern New Mexico, the hardships of life there during
World War II, and their interactions with the diverse cultural groups of
the region. The letters also offer insights into the women's very different
ways of dealing with the world and their differing perceptions of a complex
and sometimes tempestuous friendship.
Hardcover from University of New Mexico Press
Book Published: 01 October, 2003
The
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum by Peter H. Hassrick (Editor), et al
Georgia O'Keeffe's unconventional paintings of mountains, bones, and
flowers--often on a giant scale--and her clear, simple forms and colors
made her an early pioneer of a new American modernism. The Georgia O'Keeffe
Museum opened in summer 1997 in Santa Fe, presenting works from all periods
of the artist's long career. Providing a remarkable virtual tour through
the museum, this beautiful clothbound volume with French folded jacket
features essays by leading art writers such as Barbara Rose and Mark Stevens,
and a new, thorough chronology by Charles Eldredge. Included in the 86
full-color images and 4 lavish gatefolds are many works that have never
been reproduced before, which are complemented throughout by black-and-white
photographs documenting the extraordinary life of this courageous, inventive
artist (1887-1986). For O'Keeffe fans unable to travel to Santa Fe for
a personal pilgrimage, this book is the next best thing. Amazon.com
Hardcover: 144 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.90 x
12.48 x 9.49
Publisher: Harry N Abrams; (September 1997)
ISBN: 0810936852
Georgia
O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 by Barbara Buhler Lynes, et al
Book Description: During the second half of the nineteenth century,
the exotic South African calla lily was introduced in the United States,
and it began to appear as a subject in American art. The flower became
even more popular with artists after Freud provided a sexual interpretation
of its form that added new levels of meaning to depictions of it. The calla
lily soon became a recurring motif in works by important painters and photographers,
particularly Georgia O'Keeffe, who depicted the flower so many times and
in such provocative ways that by the early 1930s she became known as "the
lady of the lilies."
This gorgeous book features 54 paintings, photographs, and drawings
of the calla lily dating from the 1860s to 1940. It includes nine of O'Keeffe's
most renowned paintings of the flower as well as works by Imogen Cunningham,
Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, John La Farge, Man Ray, Joseph Stella,
and Edward Weston. The book includes an introduction by esteemed O'Keeffe
scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes and essays on various aspects of the flower
in American art by Charles C. Eldredge and James Moore.
This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe
Museum from October 3, 2002 to January 14, 2003, which will then travel
to the Albuquerque Museum from February 1 to May 1, 2003 and the Muscarelle
Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, from May 31 to August 10, 2003.
Hardcover: 152 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.74 x
11.52 x 9.64
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; (October 1, 2002)
ISBN: 0300097387
