Georgia O’Keeffe (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Hutton Turner
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Fine arts and biography
- Time of Work: 1887-1986
- Setting: Wisconsin, New York, Texas, and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Anita Pollitzer, Ted Reid, Arthur Dove, Alon Bement, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Juan Hamilton
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography, Arts
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Art or artists, Midwest, West, U.S., Painting or painters, New Mexico, Southwest, Texas
- Locales: New York, New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin
From earliest childhood, Georgia O’Keeffe was more sensitive to color and form than most people. Born during a cold Wisconsin autumn, O’Keeffe was kept indoors by her mother through the harsh winter, not allowed outdoors until she was eight or nine months old. Despite her tender age when she first experienced the dazzling brightness of the outdoors, O’Keeffe always attested remembering details about the patchwork quilt on which she was placed during her first adventure in nature.
Elizabeth Hutton Turner, curator of the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., which between...
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