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Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters Hardcover – January 1, 1987

by Jack Cowart (Author), Juan Hamilton (Author)
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The year 1987 marked the centennial of the birth of Georgia O'Keeffe, one of our nation's best known and inventive artists, and this book of her art celebrates that event. Approximately 120 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations. ** ISBN 0-8212-1686-4. ** Amazon review: One should not commit the injustice of calling this an exhibition catalog, because it stands so well apart from the splendid traveling collection it accompanies. This is a book of wonders in many respects. The essays illuminate selected corners of O'Keeffe's life and art. The letters, full of vivacity, keen insight, and hard thinking, show how she saw her life and chose to live. Above all are the brilliantly reproduced paintings; easily seen as sensual, they are also tightly controlled visions of color and form, monumental and deeply intellectual. It is far too easy to make O'Keeffe a cultural icon instead of seeing her as one of the America's two or three greatest artists. This book argues the latter with sweet force. GraceAnne A. DeCandido,"Library Journal".
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  6. ISBN-10
    0821216864
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One should not commit the injustice of calling this an exhibition catalog, because it stands so well apart from the splendid traveling collection it accompanies. This is a book of wonders in many respects. The essays illuminate selected corners of O'Keeffe's life and art. The letters, full of vivacity, keen insight, and hard thinking, show how she saw her life and chose to live. Above all are the brilliantly reproduced paintings; easily seen as sensual, they are also tightly controlled visions of color and form, monumental and deeply intellectual. It is far too easy to make O'Keeffe a cultural icon instead of seeing her as one of the America's two or three greatest artists. This book argues the latter with sweet force. GraceAnne A. DeCandido,"Library Journal"
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ New York Graphic Society; First Edition (January 1, 1987)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0821216864
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0821216866
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.49 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.3 x 10 x 12.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Chrondomom
5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous OKeefe
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2019
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I bought this book as a present for myself and I look at it whenever I need inspiration or solace. A very beautiful book. Since it was used I thought it might show damage, but it’s absolutely perfect.
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The price for this beautiful book as outstanding. It arrived beautifully and very promptly.
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I'm a big Georgia O'Keefe fan and i love this book. It came as described.
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4.0 out of 5 stars good book
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I am a huge Georgia O'Keefe fan. I already have two other large books with color plates of her work. This one has mostly pictures that are not contained in the other two. The quality of the color plates is okay. Could be better, but not too bad.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Learning about Georgia
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Beautiful book. So much insight into the life of this incredible artist
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Charlie
5.0 out of 5 stars The art and letters of a genius
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The first half of the book has large plates of some of her work. The second half is reproductions of some of her letters. Interesting read.
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Lyn Herdt
5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous.
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2016
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I am a major O'Keeffe fan. I lost my original volume in a house fire, and was so excited when I found a copy on Amazon. Beautiful.
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Eileen Nephin Bish
5.0 out of 5 stars A plus pleasure
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2015
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As an artist I have loved Ms. O'Keefe's paintings all my adult life and this book is the best of both worlds - very enjoyable!
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Dawn
5.0 out of 5 stars Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters
Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2013
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I thought this book was an excellent purchase. The bought was full of wonderful, clean prints of her work, which was the reason I wanted it. I looked for awhile to find a book of her works, and this one exceeded my expectations. I'm hoping to be able to sit and glance through her letters, which are found in the second half of the book. There are quite a few of both her art and of her letters. If you're only looking for one, or the the other, the book still isn't a disappointment.
The seller also made certain to thoroughly protect the book for me as well. I've had other books sent to me. Some are damaged, and one was even slashed in transit. This book was in perfect condition. I'd purchase from this seller again.
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Dr R
5.0 out of 5 stars A revealing integration of words and images
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2014
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It is fascinating to read the letters of artists to try to complement the information presented in their works. Sometimes, as in the case of Magritte, there is little information and what there is tends to obscure rather than reveal his motivation and influences. Other artists, such as Kandinsky, never seem to have stopped writing.

An exhibition was held between 1987-89 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, The Art Institute of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Los Angeles Country of Museum of Art that brought together the art and writing of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1887-1986. Given her longevity one of the interesting features of this catalogue is the read 120 letters that she wrote between 1915 and 1981, and to see how the many changes in the outside world impacted on her work and thinking.

Two essays precede the Catalogue, `Art and Artist' by Jack Cowart and `In O'Keeffe's World' by Juan Hamilton, a potter and the artist's assistant and confidant from 1973 until her death. It was Hamilton who had the original idea to include O'Keeffe's writing in the exhibition.

The Catalogue includes 120 charcoals, watercolours, pastels, drawings and oil paintings, the earliest being the drawings "Special No. 2, No. 4, No. 5, No. 9 and No. 13", 1915, the latest "Sky Above Clouds IV", 1965. The illustration on the front cover is "Music - Pink and Blue II", 1919. Each work is reproduced in colour as a full page plate and the images include her abstractions, flower paintings, still lifes, cityscapes and landscapes, and figure studies.

Sarah Greenough, who selected and annotated the letters, introduces them in `From the Faraway', `Faraway' being the remote areas of the US where O'Keeffe lived, following which they are presented in groups, 1915-1918, 1919-1929, 1929-1946 and 1947-1981. There are very helpful notes about the addressees of her correspondence and other relevant information. There is a Chronology, a Bibliography [by Laura Coyle] and an Index. The Frontispiece is William Clift's photograph "Georgia O'Keeffe in Abiquiu", 1981, and there is a photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, "O'Keeffe's Hands with Skull", 1930.

The exhibition was planned in 1985 to highlight areas of the artist's work that made the greatest contribution to 20th-century American art. As a result, it is more focused on the works produced between 1915-1940s with particular themes selected from the 1950s and early 1960s. With the artist's death the exhibition was broadened to include her letters.

Cowart emphasises that, whilst the artist `preferred to distance herself from critics, biographers, art historians or others who probed', she was more open to her friends, hence the value of this catalogue. O'Keeffe often carried images in her head which were only committed to paper or canvas when she found the correct colours, `she used colour as emotion.'

Hamilton's essay offers fascinating insights into the artist's work and the pattern of her daily life, which she planned to extend to the age of 120. O'Keeffe wrote in 1916 that `Words and I - are not good friends at all except with some people'. 'I think I'd rather let the painting work for itself than help it with the word.' Thankfully, the letters here are addressed to `some people'.

The works selected include some of O'Keeffe's early abstractions ["Blue Lines X" and "Blues No. III and IV", all 1916, "Black Spot No. 2", 1919, "Flower Abstraction", 1924, "Abstraction No. 77 (Tulip)", 1925, "Abstraction, Blue", 1927, "Blue, Black and Grey", 1960, and "Winter Road I", 1963], watercolours ["Sunrise and Little Clouds II", 1916, and "Starlight Night", 1917], landscapes ["Red Mesa", 1917, "Lake George", 1924, "Small Purple Hills", 1934, and "Grey Hills", 1942], urban landscapes ["Street, New York, No. 1", 1926, "East River from the Shelton, 1928", and "New York, Night", 1929, ], plants and flowers ["Red Canna", c. 1920, "Corn, Dark I", 1924, "Black Iris III", 1926, "Red Poppy", "Pink Sweet Peas" and "Seaweed", all 1927, "Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. III", 1930, and "An Orchid", 1941], still lifes ["Grapes on White Dish - Dark Rim" and "Plums", both 1920, "Apple Family III", 1921, and "Peach and Glass", 1927], shells ["Closed Clam Shell", "Open Clam Shell" and "Clam and Mussel", all 1926, "From a Shell", 1930, and "White Shell with Red", 1938], crosses ["Black Cross, New Mexico", 1929], bones and skulls ["Thigh Bone with Black Stripe", 1930, "Cow's Skull with Calico Roses", 1931, "Rib and Jawbone", 1935, and "Pelvis III", 1944], doors ["in the Patio I", 1946, and "My Last Door", 1954] and clouds ["Sky Above Clouds II and III", both 1963, and "Sky Above Clouds IV", 1965].

O'Keeffe's sensitive letters beautifully complement the graphic imagery of the colour plates.
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