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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum.

Although Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has long been celebrated as a central figure in twentieth-century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained overlooked by critics and the public in favor of her representational subjects. In 1915, O'Keeffe leaped into abstraction with a group of charcoal drawings that were among the most radical works of art produced in the United States at that time. In these and subsequent abstractions,...

Illustrations and text present the life and works of the famous American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.

"Hailed as one of America's most innovative artists, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) created works on paper throughout her long career. More than fifty of her most stunning charcoals, pastels, and watercolors are presented in this catalogue, which accompanies the exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe."--Jacket.

This film explores Georgia O'Keeffe's "The White Calico Flower" housed in the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Concentrating on a pervasive theme in the society the artists shared as well as illuminating anew the relationship between their work and their lives, the author sheds compelling new light on the work of two of the U.S.'s most prominent artists. She also illuminates issues of family, gender, and sexuality as manifested during the first half of the 20th century and continuing to shape American society today.

"Georgia O'Keeffe was one of America's pre-eminent artists, and the first to experiment with abstraction, though she never abandoned her deep response to and observation of nature. Enormously popular, she became identified and respected as an independent spirit for both her art and her life." "This book explores the significance of O'Keeffe's collection of her own work. Approximately 75 seminal works, dating from about 1910 to the end of the 1960s...

This chronicle of the life and career of a unique modern artist is based on her correspondence and interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues.

This volume presents a portrait of the friendship between Maria Chabot (1913-2001) and American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) seen through the lens of their personal correspondence to each other. 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...