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…
But is it art?
After a break, I went back to reading My Faraway One. In my June 20 post about the first two…
O’Keeffe: against interpretation
Georgia O'Keeffe may be the most egregiously over-interpreted artist of all time. The interpretations, and the narratives, have gotten so…
Georgia O’Keeffe: 1945 woman of achievement
I'm making my way through the more than one thousand articles on Georgia O'Keeffe in The New York Times database…
Georgia O’Keeffe on the Equal Rights Amendment, 1942
It is hard to realize that any group still has to work for equal rights before the law. . …
Reading “My Faraway One”
Nearly two hundred pages into the correspondence* between Georgia O’Keeffe (in Canyon, Texas) and Alfred Stieglitz (in New York City),…
Wild beauty
From the very beginning, Georgia O'Keeffe preferred rugged natural beauty to picturesque landscapes: Gaspe, Quebec; the Texas Panhandle Plains; and…
Photographing O’Keeffe being photographed
In her old age, Georgia O'Keeffe described photography sessions with Alfred Stieglitz as work. This rare photo of such a…