Georgia O'Keeffe's Personal Libraries

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Exhibition catalog feature books from the Abiquiu Bookroom.

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Correspondence between O’Keeffe and Stieglitz dating from 1915-1933. Letters provide a glimpse into their relationship, the evolution of their art and ideals, and their friendships with range of key figures in American and European art and culture.

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The first extensive publication from the extraordinary archive of private correspondence between two of this country's most famous artists. This long-awaited volume features some 650 letters, carefully selected and annotated by leading photography scholar Sarah Greenough. In O'Keeffe's sparse and vibrant style and Stieglitz's fervent and lyrical manner, the letters describe how they met and fell in love in the 1910s; how they carved out a life together in the 1920s; how their relationship nearly collapsed during the early years of the Depression; and how it was reconstructed in the late 1930s and early 1940s. At the same time, the correspondence reveals the creative evolution of their art and ideas; their friendships with many of the most influential figures in early American modernism.

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In 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalog her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but still painting.