Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Georgia O'Keeffe"The definitive life of O'Keeffe." —Hilton Kramer, Los Angeles Times Georgia O'Keefe (1887?-1986) 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.Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues. |
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... mountain called Cerro Pedernal. In a narrow gallery, dozens of New Mexico landscapes were precisely and gently rendered in pencil on paper. O'Keeffe resisted enclosure. In New Mexico, she walked, rode, and drove around the landscape for ...
... mountain called Cerro Pedernal. In a narrow gallery, dozens of New Mexico landscapes were precisely and gently rendered in pencil on paper. O'Keeffe resisted enclosure. In New Mexico, she walked, rode, and drove around the landscape for ...
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... mountains, lakes, and sea. Landscape was her heritage and the source of her gift. A gift, as the priest pointed out, “to see beauty in the simplest of things.” Put another way, through painting, she made things simple in order to see ...
... mountains, lakes, and sea. Landscape was her heritage and the source of her gift. A gift, as the priest pointed out, “to see beauty in the simplest of things.” Put another way, through painting, she made things simple in order to see ...
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... Mountains beckoned from the distance, so she began sneaking out with her friends for illicit hikes. She called them “the best things that happened for me in those years—because I never did like school.”17 Given her high marks at Sacred ...
... Mountains beckoned from the distance, so she began sneaking out with her friends for illicit hikes. She called them “the best things that happened for me in those years—because I never did like school.”17 Given her high marks at Sacred ...
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... Mountains. Founded by Spencer and Katrina Trask, patrons of the arts who later established the arts colony Yaddo in Saratoga, Amitola was nestled on one hundred acres of forest on the eastern edge of the lake. An old hotel had been ...
... Mountains. Founded by Spencer and Katrina Trask, patrons of the arts who later established the arts colony Yaddo in Saratoga, Amitola was nestled on one hundred acres of forest on the eastern edge of the lake. An old hotel had been ...
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Contents
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Book Two BECOMING 19181946 | 155 |
Book Three BEING 19471986 | 421 |
Coda | 547 |
Notes | 555 |
Selected Bibliography | 595 |
Index | 605 |
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