Georgia O'Keeffe: One Hundred Flowers

Very disappointed with this book - had no idea how small it was and inside pages in poor condition with several written post-it's left inside from former owner - not clean. All purchases have been great - not this one and would not recommend.

Pictures are too small on some pages, and so large on other pages that they split between two sides…each image should have filled up one page.

Great selection of O’Keeffe's Flower period, Unfortunately the publisher chose to spilt larger pictures between 2 pages, when you try to see all of it book slits in half. Too many other prints are so tiny on the page example 1"x1" you can't study them to enjoy. Very disappointing since Artist wanted you to be drawn into the flower. This is not a large book about 4"x 5" but still could have been truly enjoyable if each picture took up 1 whole page, like on book cover. and gave the size of canvas to appriciate what she was trying to make you feel. I Would not recommend

So said O'Keefe in describing what it's like to hold a flower and really to look at it. O'Keefe managed to convey some of that wonder in paint. She grew them to huge size, setting them at or above human scale. She drew them in scorching colors, like "Poppy" or "Oriental poppy," or in stark lights and darks ("Jimson weed" and "Black hollyhock"). She displayed them with human passion, possibly drawing parallels between a plant's organs of regeneration and a human's ("Red canna" and "Yellow sweet peas"). Whatever you see in these - and different people will see differently - they are monumental presentations of something we think of as small and delicate. By itself, that's a message: the big and the small are equals in the world, when considered at their proper scale. Maybe it's not fair to O'Keefe's ouvre to isolate one part of it like this - she preferred to show her work with a better balance of subjects and styles. These wonderful paintings deserve attention of their own, though. Some of the paintings are up to six feet tall and seven wide - even at 12"x10", book can't capture the full drama of the work. Still, it's an amazing collection. //wiredweird

A picture is worth a thousand words; and one hundred pictures that happen to be O'Keeffe's are priceless. The works accurately portray the artist's keen eye for the beauty found in the smallest of mother earth's gifts: the flower. The book is an overall thorough and concise summary of the artist's most prized achievements.

O'Keeffe can magnify the beauty of flowers magically in her paintings. Her perception allows the everyday art lover to escape into God's garden and visualize the serenity found in heaven.