Georgia O'Keeffe: A Book of Postcards - Softcover

Georgia O'Keeffe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566400228 ISBN 13: 9781566400220

Publisher: Pomegranate, 2000

Synopsis

American painter Georgia O Keeffe (1887 1986) was renowned for her close-up paintings of flowers and her images of the American Southwest, works of elegant simplicity that capture the essence of her subject. Also known for her original approach to her art and her independent spirit, she preferred not to limit her paintings by interpreting them, commenting, I think I d rather let the painting work for itself than help it with the word. Presented here are thirty eloquent paintings by one of the most revered and inventive American artists. 30 full-color reproductions.
Pomegranate s books of postcards contain up to thirty top-quality reproductions bound together in a handy, artful collection. Easy to remove and produced on heavy card stock, these stunning postcards are a delight to the sender and receiver. Postcards are oversized and may require additional postage.

About this title

About the Author

Georgia O'Keeffe was born in 1887, the second of seven children, and grew up on a farm in Wisconsin. By the time she graduated from high school she was determined to become an artist, spending the next few years studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York, and later teaching art in Texas, Virginia and South Carolina. In 1916, Alfred Stieglitz exhibited 10 of her charcoal abstractions at his famous avant-garde gallery, 291, closing the gallery the next year with a solo exhibition of her works. From 1918 on they lived and worked together in New York and Lake George. Three years after Stieglitz's death in 1946, O'Keefe moved to New Mexico, whose stunning vistas and stark landscape configurations had inspired her work since 1929. It was here that she painted her most famous pictures, working in oils until her eyes failed her in the 1970s. She continued working in pencil and watercolor until 1982 and produced objects in clay until 1984, two years before she died at age 98.

Review

"A beautifully illustrated book about this icon, a liberated, unconventional, independent, and spirited American woman and celebrity who predated the feminist movement and had few peers." -- Rose Safran "Maine Antique Digest" (08/01/2008)

Edition details

• Publisher: Pomegranate
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1566400228
• ISBN 13: 9781566400220
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Georgia O'Keeffe
• Number of pages: 30