Georgia O'Keeffe: Works on Paper

O'Keeffe, Georgia and Barbara Haskell, David Turner

ISBN 10: 0890131546 / ISBN 13: 9780890131541

Published by Museum of New Mexico Press, 1985

About this Item

Hardcover with dustjacket in protective plastic overwrap, 102 pages; very good condition; except tiny bit of foxing to top edge of boards and top outer edge of pages; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller Inventory # Geo Mu10

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Georgia O'Keeffe: Works on Paper
• Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890131546
• ISBN 13: 9780890131541
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Early Modern Art

About this title

Synopsis

This ground-breaking volume, the first to consider Georgia O'Keeffe's works on paper, explores the media of watercolour, charcoal, pencil and pastel. O'Keeffe, an artist of immense stature in twentieth-century art, is known primarily as a painter. However, her earliest mature works, which led to her first New York exhibitions and initial acclaim, were works on paper as well, and resumed her intense commitment to drawing and watercolour in the 1960s and 1970s. The works on paper can be viewed in the larger context of O'Keeffe's career as an artist. They move from stylised, flat patterning of the early charcoals to the rhapsodic organic forms and fresh uses of colour in the watercolours to the tighter, more focused compositions of the later pastels, charcoals and pencil drawings. Finally, the works on paper of the 1960s and 1970s are characterised by an extreme simplification and almost decorative flatness. Richly illustrated with 31 full-colour plates and 21 duotones, accompanied by an introduction, critical essay and biographical chronology.

From the Publisher

Richly illustrated with 31 color plates and 21 black-and-white photographs, this reprint of a classic O'Keeffe study celebrates this quintessentially American artist.