Sparks are flying
Last week I visited the “My New Yorks” exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. (You can catch it through…
Georgia O’Keeffe up-close in new book
Just in time for the holidays comes a new Georgia O'Keeffe picture book, this one by Malcom Varon. Georgia O'Keeffe:…
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: feminist forever
Right from the get-go, Georgia O'Keeffe resisted patriarchy. "I have always resented being told that there are things I cannot…
But is it art?
After a break, I went back to reading My Faraway One. In my June 20 post about the first two…
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),…
O’Keeffe’s best years
Her best years, Georgia O'Keeffe often remarked, were the early years of discovery and anonymity. She hadn't yet become "our…