Georgia O'Keeffe

by Lisa Mintz Messinger

Book Overview

For seven decades Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art who, remarkably, maintained her independence from shifting artistic trends. She painted prolifically, and almost exclusively, the flowers, animal bones, and landscapes around her studios in Lake George, New York, and New Mexico, and these subjects became her signature images. Remaining true to her own unique artistic vision, she created a highly individual style of painting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500203407
• ISBN13: 9780500203408
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

More is less, a great bio in a small book

This book gives the reader a great outline of O'Keeffe's life. Best of all, the author matches the artist's personal development with her work so that one can travel in O'Keeffe's footsteps and appreciate both her outlook and inner eye.

Meet the real Georgia O'Keeffe!!

This is an unusually perceptive and sensitive view of the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe. The author not only includes information about the friends of Georgia, but samples of the works that very probably influenced her development as an artist. The photographs of Georgia at various times in her life were a nice addition. I learned more about this wonderfully independent artist from this book than from the other dozens of books that I have read about her. Very readable, and highly recommended.