Author: Ann Daly

  • Hey, that’s me on YouTube!

    Hey, that’s me on YouTube!

    I spend so much time hunkered down, doing research and developing a book proposal, that I haven’t been posting much lately. Sorry about that! But my friend and actress extraordinaire Francesca Christian coaxed me into doing an interview, the first in her series called “On the Horizon.” She asked terrific questions (why O’Keeffe, what’s the…

  • Sculpture or incinerator?

    Sculpture or incinerator?

    Just in case we thought Georgia O’Keeffe was all work and no play . . . This picture, accessed from the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s online collection, came with a story from its donor, Brian Garfield. Garfield was the son of O’Keeffe’s good friend, Frances O’Brien. The object, Garfield explained, is a trash incinerator, of undetermined…

  • What would Miss O’Keeffe say?

    What would Miss O’Keeffe say?

    Am taking a little break from wall-to-wall O’Keeffe research, and I thought you could use a little break, too! (If the video embed does not show above, you can click through to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acJ00D4SALw.)

  • Was Georgia O’Keeffe an angry woman?

    Was Georgia O’Keeffe an angry woman?

    As an art student in New York, Georgia O’Keeffe realized that any distraction, like dancing late into the night, would impinge upon her prime directive: to paint. For her, anger was just another distraction.

  • Georgia O’Keeffe in comic form

    My (seemingly endless) research on Georgia O’Keeffe leads me down a lot of unexpected paths, none more enchanting than the comic strip I recently discovered. Lest we assume that O’Keeffe appeals mostly to women, and mostly older women, consider the case of Todd Webb, a cartoonist/illustrator and songwriter who has taken his inspiration from the…

  • Georgia O’Keeffe: never a catholic, maybe a buddhist

    “I feel I’m a very religious person — religion to me means respect for people — but I’m not in a religion.”

  • Holiday greetings from Georgia O’Keeffe

    Georgia O’Keeffe was not religious in the institutional sense, but she was deeply spiritual and certainly enjoyed a good ritual. She usually celebrated Christmas with friends, and sent Christmas cards, including one in 1963 that reproduced her 1917 masterpiece, “Starlight Night” (above). In the 1970s, according to her then caregiver and secretary Agapita Lopez (now…

  • Georgia O’Keeffe: Look for yourself

    That Kate Alfriend must have been one heck of a charmer. In 1938, Georgia O’Keeffe made no speech when she accepted her honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts at the College of William & Mary, but she did choose to give a few words to the girl reporter for the student newspaper. This may be the…

  • Georgia O’Keeffe as photographer

    Georgia O’Keeffe as photographer

    From the Todd Webb Archive: “Todd met Georgia O’Keeffe in 1943 at Alfred Stieglitz’s gallery, An American Place. He had dropped off some prints there the previous day and returned to find them propped up on Georgia’s desk with her studying them intently. Their friendship solidified after Stieglitz’s death in 1946, when Webb helped Georgia…

  • Georgia, Julia, and the Token Woman

    Georgia, Julia, and the Token Woman

    There is no denying that O’Keeffe was an extraordinarily ambitious professional. But it does not necessarily follow that the dearth of other successful women artists was the result of her competitiveness.