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Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters

by Tori Duggan on 2021-01-29T12:23:00-07:00 in Book review, Georgia O'Keeffe | 0 Comments

Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters by Amy Von Lintel; Bonney MacDonald (Foreword by)

Call Number: N6537.O39 A3 2020

Publication Date: 2020

In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O'Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle, to take a position as art teacher for the newly organized Amarillo Public Schools. Subsequently she would join the faculty at what was then West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M University). Already a thoroughly independent-minded woman, she maintained an active correspondence with her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and other friends back east during the years she lived in Texas.

Amy Von Lintel brings to readers the collected O'Keeffe correspondence and added commentary and analysis, shining fresh light on a period of the artist's life she characterizes as "some of the least appreciated in the vast O'Keeffe scholarship," but also as "a time when she discovered her own voice as a young, successful, and independent woman . . . a dedicated faculty member at a brand-new college . . . a vibrant social butterfly . . . a progressive woman who spoke her mind and fought for her beliefs to be heard."

Von Lintel aims to allow the artist's voice to "emerge as a powerful witness of her own life, but also of western America in a pivotal moment of its development." The result is an important new examination of one of our most beloved artists during a time when she was in the process of discovering her future identity.

Review:

"Von Lintel’s commentaries help the reader feel O’Keeffe’s love of life, love of personal freedom and how the approaching war influenced her thinking."

It’s a wonderful life: Two authors examine Georgia O’Keeffe’s years in West Texas, NM and influences on her art / by David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal, December 6, 2020

Learn More:

Amy Von Lintel discusses her book and discoveries on C-SPAN.

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