Georgia O’Keeffe (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Beverly Gherman
- First Published: 1986
- Time of Work: 1887–1986
- Setting: Wisconsin, Virginia, New York, Texas, and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Georgia O’Keeffe, Alon Bement and Arthur Wesley Dow, Alfred Stieglitz, Anita Pollitzer, Juan Hamilton
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography, Arts
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Nature, Art or artists, Marriage, Painting or painters, Southwest, Biography
- Locales: Virginia, New York, New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin
Form and Content
In her brief biography Georgia O’Keeffe: The “Wideness and Wonder” of Her World, Beverly Gherman concentrates on those areas of the artist’s life that help to explain her unique approach to art. Gherman prefaces her work with a brief note in which she expresses her admiration of O’Keeffe’s strength as a woman, and she concludes with a colophon, or end note, in which the author describes a vision of O’Keeffe that appeared to her in New Mexico after the artist’s death. The vision served as Gherman’s inspiration for writing the book.
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