Georgia O'Keeffe

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An exhibition catalogue for the major O’Keeffe retrospective exhibition at Tate Modern offering new perspectives and research on O’Keeffe’s work from the 1910s through to the 1960s. Fully illustrated with useful bibliography and chronology.

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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was one of the foundational figures of American modernism and a pioneering woman in the arts. Widely celebrated and recognized for her flower paintings and Southwest landscapes, O'Keeffe is revealed in full in this new book. With superb plates of more than 200 works, it ranges from well-known masterpieces to the abstractions, nature studies, and New York City scenes that have captivated new generations of art lovers. It includes essays from prominent art historians, among them Sarah Greenough, who explores the artist's legendary personal and aesthetic partnership with Alfred Stieglitz; Griselda Pollock on O'Keeffe and feminism; and Cody Hartley on O'Keeffe and the American landscape. Accompanying the first major O'Keeffe retrospective exhibition in this century, Georgia O'Keeffe is the definitive volume for our time on one of America's most beloved and influential artists.

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A brief biography of Georgia O’Keeffe.

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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, was a painter who took an independent and visionary road. Her paintings evoke varied interpretations yet maintain their beauty and simplicity. O'Keeffe's life is woven together with that of her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Often living apart, they exchanged letters amounting to over 25,000 pieces of paper. He took hundreds of elegant pictures of every part of her, considering the collected images his portrait of O'Keeffe. She is considered the mother of American Modernism.

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This publication accompanied a major traveling exhibition and explores O’Keeffe’s personal style. Illustrations include numerous photographs of O’Keeffe’s homes in New Mexico, portraits of O’Keeffe over her lifetime, O’Keeffe’s paintings and drawings, and rare photographs of O’Keeffe’s clothes and accessories from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s collection.

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This book explores how Georgia O'Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O'Keeffe's clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O'Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today's fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. This fresh and carefully researched study brings O'Keeffe's style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanies the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O'Keeffe's unified modernist aesthetic.

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The most comprehensive record of O’Keeffe’s work by former Georgia O’Keeffe Museum curator, Barbara Buhler Lynes. Includes over 2000 of O’Keeffe’s works arranged chronologically, an extensive bibliography, chronology, and exhibition history complete with early installation photographs. A key reference.

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Georgia O'Keeffe's magnificent landscape paintings, flower studies, abstract art, and other works are greatly admired, yet the full range of her subjects, her working methods, and her stylistic development have never been accurately explored. This beautiful two-volume catalogue raisonné--which presents more than 2000 works by O'Keeffe in a variety of media--displays her innovative use of color and form and in the process sheds light on her distinctive contribution to American modernism. This catalogue includes O'Keeffe's paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture, many of which have never been reproduced, along with entries that provide all pertinent factual information. The works are arranged chronologically and are enhanced with a full bibliography, exhibitions listing, and chronology of the artist's life.

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Published for the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s tenth anniversary, the catalogue reproduces over 300 O’Keeffe paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the Museum’s collection, arranged by subject and chronologically within subjects. Also includes select photographs and works by other artists from the collection as well as a brief history of the Museum and collections overview.

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Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great artists of the twentieth century, and one of the best loved. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, holds the largest collection of her work, her archives, and her houses at Ghost Ranch and in Abiquiu. This lavishly illustrated volume presents a magnificent selection of O'Keeffe's paintings, drawings, and sculptures, all reproduced in faithful color. It also offers a generous portfolio of photographs--some previously unpublished--by O'Keeffe; many by Alfred Stieglitz, her husband and mentor; and others by such renowned photographers as Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Philippe Halsman, Yousuf Karsh, and Todd Webb. In addition, there are a number of works by American Modernist painters who painted in New Mexico--George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, and Edward Hopper, among others.

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Over one hundred reproductions selected by O’Keeffe are accompanied by her own recollections of the inception of the works and major life events.

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A handsomely illustrated autobiography of this free-spirited American artist.

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A detailed O’Keeffe biography broken into three sections: Beginning 1848-1917, Becoming 1918-1946 and Being 1947-1986. Useful notes and citations.

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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. But behind O'Keeffe's bold work and celebrity was a woman misunderstood by even her most ardent admirers. This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth.

Note from the library:
A brief biography of Georgia O’Keeffe.

About:
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, was a painter who took an independent and visionary road. Her paintings evoke varied interpretations yet maintain their beauty and simplicity. O'Keeffe's life is woven together with that of her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Often living apart, they exchanged letters amounting to over 25,000 pieces of paper. He took hundreds of elegant pictures of every part of her, considering the collected images his portrait of O'Keeffe. She is considered the mother of American Modernism.

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A more recent biography drawing upon O’Keeffe’s letters as source material.

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In this book, Nancy J. Scott draws on extensive sources--including many of O'Keeffe's letters--to offer a sensitive and incisive examination of her groundbreaking works, their evolution, and how their reception has been caught in conflicts between O'Keeffe's inner self and public persona. Following the young artist as her path-breaking, abstract charcoal landscapes caught the attention of gallery impresario Stieglitz, Scott tells the story of their partnership, of Stieglitz's nudes, and the development of O'Keeffe's early reputation as a sexually inspired, Freudian-minded artist. Scott explores the independent expression that O'Keeffe forged in opposition to the interpretations of her abstract work and the hybrid space that O'Keeffe's works came to inhabit. Unique to this biography is the inclusion of her letters--which have only recently been made available. They show that her words can be just as revelatory as her paintings, and they offer the intimate voice of an artist alive in an era of great artistic development. The result is a succinct yet comprehensive account of one of the most prolific and important artists of the twentieth century.

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An exhibition catalogue featuring O'Keeffe's drawings and paintings as well as letters from the artist to critics, friends, and colleagues.

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Correspondence between O’Keeffe and Pollitzer, a friend. Most letters date from 1915-1917 and are an interesting reference for the formative years of Georgia O'Keeffe's life.

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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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Selected and annotated letters written by O'Keeffe from her time in Texas, 1916-1918.

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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." Although selected paintings by O'Keeffe that support the narrative are featured, this work focuses on O'Keeffe's words. By doing so, 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.

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Letters between O’Keeffe and Chabot dating from 1941-1949 describing their connection to the people and places of northern New Mexico and the reconstruction of O’Keeffe’s Abiquiú house.

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Maria Chabot met Georgia O'Keeffe in Northern New Mexico in 1940. 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 oversee the reconstruction of a ruined adobe house in Abiquiu, New Mexico, that would become O'Keeffe's permanent home in 1949.

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Explores the influence of the landscapes and cities inhabited by Georgia O’Keeffe on her life and artwork. Illustrated with O’Keeffe’s artwork and archival imagery from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum collections.

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Georgia O'Keeffe at Home explores the influence of the various landscapes and cities Georgia inhabited, as well as the places she travelled to, her life and artwork.

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A history of Georgia O’Keeffe’s two houses in Abiquiú and Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Includes historical and contemporary photographs of the houses, photographs of O’Keeffe at home, and her paintings of the houses and the landscapes surrounding them.

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Georgia O'Keeffe spent almost 40 years of her life in the American Southwest. Her two houses in New Mexico; at Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu and the landscapes around them became essential elements in her paintings. The mountains and arroyos, the skulls and the Jimson weeds, a ladder against a wall, a door; all transformed by her genius into a quintessentially American art. Astonishingly, the history of these houses has never before been written. In this volume, Barbara Buhler Lynes and Agapita Judy Lopez create a vibrant picture of O'Keeffe at home. Drawing on O'Keeffe's correspondence, Lynes and Lopez set forth their fascinating story. An essay by architect Beverly Spears describes the distinctive characteristics of adobe architecture and its construction, and the many individuals involved with the house are identified. An appendix provides valuable information about the materials used in resorting the Abiquiu house. Photographs made especially for this book show the houses as they are today, plus dozens of photographs made by major photographers during her life show her living in the houses. Photographs of her painting and specific architectural components of the Abiquiu house are also included. These photographs and their accompanying texts offer for the first time a compelling picture of O'Keeffe's life in New Mexico, how each house satisfied different aspects of the artist's personal and professional needs and how O'Keeffe gradually transformed these Spanish Pueblo Revival style houses to reflect her modernist aesthetic.

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An exhibition catalogue focusing on the analyzing O’Keeffe’s depictions of Northern New Mexico landscapes. It includes O’Keeffe’s paintings, photographs of the sites depicted in paintings, and diagrams of the region’s geology.

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Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico is the first book to analyze the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes. Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It reproduces the exhibition's 50 paintings and includes striking photographs of the sites that inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive geology. The book examines the magnificence of O'Keeffe's work through essays by three noted authors. Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and organizer of the exhibition, discusses the relationship of the artist's paintings to the places that inspired her. Frederick Turner offers an illuminating essay contrasting O'Keeffe's fabled aloofness from the well-established art colony in Santa Fe with her intense closeness to the local landscape she so fiercely loved. Lesley Poling-Kempes furnishes a fascinating chronicle of O'Keeffe's years in the region as well as a useful explanation of the geological forces that produced the intense colors and dramatic shapes of the landscapes O'Keeffe painted.