Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place
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When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost every year painting there, first in Taos, and subsequently in and around Alcalde, Abiquiu, and Ghost Ranch, with occasional excursions to remote sites she found particularly compelling. 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. EXHIBIT SCHEDULE:?
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Santa Fe, New Mexico
June 11-September 12, 2004
Columbus Museum of Art Columbus, Ohio
October 1, 2004-January 16, 2005
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York
January 28-May 08, 2005
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0691116598
ISBN13:9780691116594
Release Date:January 2004
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:144 Pages
Weight:2.21 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 9.4" x 10.6"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
One of the best books on O'keeffe
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
To understand this woman's art, you have to know her place. This is it. Her wellspring. The place she felt at home. I adore this book. To see pictures of the places right next to O'keeffe's versions is just stunning. I believe god gave her Perdinal, after all.
Living in New Mexico
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I live 12 miles from Abiquiu, New Mexico where Georgia O'Keefe lived and painted the last 39 plus years of her life. One can only imagine the beauty from her paintings unless you've had the opportunity to see it in person. The book does have quite a few of the paintings she did while living in Abiquiu and at Ghost Ranch; however, if you are interested in reading about her life, the book to read is Portrait of An Artist; A Biography of Georgia O'Keefe by Laurie Lisle. I couldn't put the book down!
A Perfect Place
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
I've toured her home in Abiquiu, visited the museum in Santa Fe, and now toured Ghost Ranch to view the locales of many of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings. This book is a perfect reminder of these experiences and one I already treasure.
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