The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe

The Art & Life of Georgia O'Keeffe by Castro, Jan. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780517883877.

Georgia OKeeffe has dominated twentieth-century American art and proved herself one of its most original talents. Jan Garden Castros The Art & Life of Georgia OKeeffe offers the most complete account of both the artists fascinating private life and her extraordinary career. In 1917 Alfred Stieglitz, pioneer photographer and impresario, organized OKeeffes first one-person exhibition, the last show at his famous gallery "291." She also became the subject of many of his finest photographic works and the center of his personal and professional world for the rest of his life. Her acceptance into the Stieglitz group brought her in touch with a wide circle of creative individuals, including Ansel Adams, Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Charles Demuth, to name a few. While learning from these colleagues, OKeeffe also maintained a fierce independence from them. She had a certain mystique as a woman and an artist, and many of her contemporaries immortalized her in their work. She was the first woman artist whose face and life were of great interest to the public. Georgia OKeeffes career has spanned much of the history of modern art in America. Here are more than a hundred paintings, many rarely exhibited or reproduced, photographs of OKeeffe at various stages of her life and of the landscapes that inspired her, and a text richly documented with letters and interviews. This material, combined with Jan Castros insightful criticism, reveals OKeeffes legacy as an artist and the force of her intriguing personality.