Georgia O’Keeffe: what I meant, what you saw
The young Georgia O'Keeffe, working relentlessly to find her voice as an artist, was ambivalent about viewer reception. She longed…
Georgia O’Keeffe: feminist forever
Right from the get-go, Georgia O'Keeffe resisted patriarchy. "I have always resented being told that there are things I cannot…
Homage to O’Keeffe
I have been meaning to share this video for a while... It's by a young photographer, Petra Collins, created to…
Happy Birthday, Georgia!
One of my favorite photographs of O'Keeffe, so majestic and rooted, like a tree. (She claimed to prefer trees to…
Georgia O’Keeffe, like a cat
As a journalist and historian, I bring a perhaps too-healthy skepticism to documentaries and memoirs about O'Keeffe. They suffer, most…
Before it was “O’Keeffe Country”
As a historian, I am always on the lookout for contemporary documentation, in order to understand what/how things meant in…
Making modernism
Three women, two continents. Artists who dwell in modernism -- abandoning sentiment for the acute eye. That eye turns toward…
O’Keeffe: seeing the world from uncanny angles
“O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: Making Modernism.” The Art Gallery of New South Wales. Through October 2, 2017. The exhibit includes…