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    O'Keeffe
    O'Keeffe
    O'Keeffe
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    O'Keeffe

    By Gerry Souter

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    In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art instruction originally conceived by Arthur Wesley Dow. In Bement’s class, the students did not mechanically copy nature, but instead were taught the principles of design using geometric shapes. They worked at exercises that included dividing a square, working within a circle and placing a rectangle around a drawing, then organising the composition by rearranging, adding or eliminating elements. It sounded dull and to most students it was. But Georgia found that these studies gave art its structure and helped her understand the basics of abstraction. During the 1920s O’Keeffe also produced a huge number of landscapes and botanical studies during annual trips to Lake George. With Stieglitz’s connections in the arts community of New York – from 1923 he organised an O’Keeffe exhibition annually – O’Keeffe’s work received a great deal of attention and commanded high prices. She, however, resented the sexual connotations people attached to her paintings, especially during the 1920s when Freudian theories became a form of what today might be termed “pop psychology”. The legacy she left behind is a unique vision that translates the complexity of nature into simple shapes for us to explore and make our own discoveries. She taught us there is poetry in nature and beauty in geometry. Georgia O’Keeffe’s long lifetime of work shows us new ways to see the world, from her eyes to ours.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9781781606162
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      O'Keeffe - Gerry Souter

      Author: Gerry Souter

      Text: Janet Souter

      Layout: Baseline Co Ltd

      127-129A Nguyen Hue

      Fiditourist Building, 3rd Floor

      District 1, Ho Chi Minh City,

      Vietnam.

      © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA

      © Parkstone Press International, New York, USA

      © The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Artists Rights

      Society (ARS), New York

      All rights reserved

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

      ISBN: 978-1-78160-616-2

      Gerry Souter

      Georgia

      O’Keeffe

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      1. Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe.

      2. Blue Lines, No10, 1916.

      3. Special No32, 1914.

      4. Abstraction, 1916, 1979-1980.

      5. Abstraction IX, 1916.

      6. Nude Series XII, 1917.

      7. Evening, 1916.

      8. Evening Star III, 1917.

      9. Orange and Red Streak, 1919.

      10. Apple Family II, 1920.

      11. Light Coming on the Plains II, 1917.

      12. From the Plains, 1919.

      13. Music, Pink and Blue II, 1919.

      14. From the Lake No1, 1924.

      15. Light Iris, 1924.

      16. Black Iris III, 1926.

      17. Black and Purple Petunias, 1925.

      18. The Shelton with Sunspots, 1926.

      19. City Night, 1926.

      20. New York, Night, 1928-1929.

      21. Radiator Building, Night, New York, 1927.

      22. Black Abstraction, 1927.

      23. Red Hills and the Sun, Lake George, 1927.

      24. Oriental Poppies, 1928.

      25. Two Calla Lilies on Pink, 1928.

      26. Wave, Night, 1928.

      27. Ranchos Church, 1929.

      28. Bell, Cross, Ranchos Church, New Mexico, 1930.

      29. Cross with Red Heart, 1932.

      30. Cross, 1929.

      31. Lake George Window, 1929.

      32. Jack-in-the-Pulpit IV, 1930.

      33. Jack-in-the-Pulpit III, 1930.

      34. Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Outback of Marie’s II, 1930.

      35. Purple Hills near Abiquiu, 1935.

      36. Cow’s Skull: Red, White and Blue, 1931.

      37. Summer Days, 1936.

      38. From the Faraway Nearby, 1937.

      39. Gerald’s Tree I, 1937.

      40. Mule’s Skull with Pink Poinsettias, 1936.

      41. Two Jimson Weeds, 1938.

      42. White Camellia, 1938.

      43. Stump in Red Hills, 1940.

      44. Grey Hills, 1942.

      45. Cliffs beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall, 1943.

      46. Pelvis with Pedernal, 1943.

      47. A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills, 1946.

      48. Pelvis III, 1944.

      49. Black Place IV, 1944.

      50. Black Place Green, 1949.

      51. In the Patio I, 1946.

      52. My Last Door, 1954.

      53. Patio with Black Door, 1955.

      54. Lavender Hill with Green, 1952.

      55. From the Plains II, 1954.

      56. Only One, 1959.

      57. Blue, Black and Grey, 1960.

      58. Blue B, 1959.

      59. It Was Red and Pink, 1959.

      60. Sky above Clouds I, 1963.

      61. Sky above Clouds III, 1963.

      62. Road to the Ranch, 1964.

      63. Black Rock with Red, 1971.

      64. Georgia O’Keeffe at the Age of  Ninety at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 1977.

      65. Abstraction, 1945, 1979-1980.

      1. Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe.

      2. Blue Lines, No10, 1916.

      Watercolor, 63.5 x 48.3 cm.

      The Metropolitan Museum of Art,

      New York, NY.

      Georgia O’Keeffe, in her ability to see and marvel

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