- Born in Wisconsin in 1887, O’Keeffe studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and also at the art Students League in New York City. It was here that she first met the noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whose avant-garde gallery, 291, would be instrumental in bringing her work to the public notice.Her early exhibitions caused a sensation: the perceived sexual imagery contained in her luscious, symbolic studies of flowers being regarded as particularly scandalous. Her notoriety was further fuelled by her fierce independence and apparent eccentricity- for many years she dressed in nothing but black and white. In 1924 O’Keeffe married Stieglitz, and it is from this period that many of her “Lake George” paintings date. In the late 1920s O’Keeffe created a second home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, and finally moved there in 1946 after Stieglitz’s death. The wild and rugged American Southwest was a never-ending source of inspiration to her, and her fascination with New Mexico is vividly reflected in her sensitive landscape.
- Condition: Some wears on a dust jacket, with edges creases, hardcover and inside in very good condition.
- Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
- Length: 176 Pages
- Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.6" x 14.6"
