O'Keeffe's most significant contribution to art history was her unique approach to abstraction. This book examines, for the first time an overlooked aspect of O'Keeffe's work, focusing on her distinctive use of circular forms as an abstract motif.
Catalog of an exhibition opening at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on Feb. 4, 2011 and traveling to the Columbus Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
This book features fifty-four paintings, photographs, and drawings of the calla lily dating from the 1860s to 1940. It includes nine of O'Keeffe's most renowned paintings of the flower as well as works by Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, John La Farge, Man Ray, Joseph Stella, and Edward Weston. The book includes an introduction by esteemed O'Keeffe scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes and essays on various aspects of the flower in American art by Charles C. Eldredge and James Moore."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
O'Keeffe's most significant contribution to art history was her unique approach to abstraction. This book examines, for the first time an overlooked aspect of O'Keeffe's work, focusing on her distinctive use of circular forms as an abstract motif.
This book features fifty-four paintings, photographs, and drawings of the calla lily dating from the 1860s to 1940. It includes nine of O'Keeffe's most renowned paintings of the flower as well as works by Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, John La Farge, Man Ray, Joseph Stella, and Edward Weston. The book includes an introduction by esteemed O'Keeffe scholar Barbara Buhler Lynes and essays on various aspects of the flower in American art by Charles C. Eldredge and James Moore."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, this book reproduces 50 paintings and includes striking photographs of the sites that inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive geology.
Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe first met in Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. She was already an established artist, while he was at the beginning of his career. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. GEORGIA O'KEEFE AND ANSEL ADAMS: NATURAL AFFINITIES suggests parallels in their distinctive visions of both natural and human-made environments and illustrates the artists' achievements in capturing the reality and essence of the world around them. More than 100 beautifully reproduced paintings and photographs are accompanied by critical essays on Adams and O'Keeffe and a biographical essay on the friendship between Adams, O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz.
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