Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction (First Edition)

[Georgia O'Keeffe] Barbara Haskell (editor, essay); Barbara Buhler Lynes, Bruce Robertson, Elizabeth Hutton Turner (essays)

ISBN 10: 0300148178 / ISBN 13: 9780300148176

Published by Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press, New York, New Haven, 2009

About this Item

First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 17, 2009 and closed at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on September 12, 2010. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light bump to heel. Wrappers with light bumps to heel, crown, and top right corners, and a light crease to bottom of front panel.

Seller Inventory # 153837

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction (First Edition)
• Publisher: Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press, New York, New Haven
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300148178
• ISBN 13: 9780300148176
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Books
  • Monographs
  • Women's Interest
  • Exhibition Catalogs
  • Artists

About this title

Synopsis

Although Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been regarded as a central figure in 20th-century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained critically and popularly overlooked in favor of her representational subjects. Beginning with charcoal drawings made in 1915, which were among the most radical creations produced in the United States at that time, O’Keeffe sought to transcribe pure emotion in her work. While her output of abstract work declined after 1930, she returned to abstraction in the 1950s with a new vocabulary that provided a precedent for a younger generation of abstractionists. By devoting itself to this largely unexplored area of her work, Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction is an overdue acknowledgment of her place as one of America’s first abstractionists.

In addition to rethinking O’Keeffe’s role in the development of a uniquely American abstract style, this book chronicles the shifts and changes in subject matter and style over the span of her long career. It adds significant new insight into her life, reproducing excerpts of previously sealed letters written by O’Keeffe to photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924. These previously unpublished letters, along with other primary documents referenced by the authors, offer an intimate glimpse into her creative method and intentions as an artist.

About the Author

Barbara Haskell is Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Barbara Buhler Lynes is Curator at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Emily Fisher Landau Director of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center in Santa Fe. Bruce Robertson is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Elizabeth Hutton Turner is Professor and Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia and Guest Curator at the Phillips Collection.