Georgia: O'Keeffe: In The West, is the definitive in-depth look at the culminating period in Georgia O'Keeffe's life and work in the American Southwest. Although she began her career as a painter in the East, O'Keeffe considered the West her spiritual home, as well as the greatest source of inspiration. This book features the paintings, both widely published and previously unknown, that linked Georgia O'Keeffe and the Southwest forever in the collective American consciousness.
Georgia: O'Keeffe: In The West, is the definitive in-depth look at the culminating period in the artist's life and work in the American Southwest. The text features the paintings, both widely published and previously unknown, that linked her and the Southwest forever in the collective American consciousness.
"In chronological order, the O'Keeffe paintings that were inspired by the landscape of New Mexico are reproduced in this oversize volume, a companion to
Georgia O'Keefe: 100 Flowers, done by the same publisher last year. One always seems driven to oxymoron in describing these paintings: an intellectual lushness of hollows and spaces, controlled forms and explosive color. The recurrent images of hill and stone, bones and flowers, and trees and sky build to an incantatory power here, providing not only an art historical record but an evocation of place akin to Constable's England or Canaletto's Venice. A brief essay by long-time O'Keeffe associate Bry and notes on each of the plates complete the book. For any library that takes collection development seriously in art, women's studies, or the Southwest."
