Portrait of an Artist (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Laurie Lisle
- First Published: 1980
- Time of Work: 1887–1978
- Setting: Wisconsin, Virginia, Texas, New York, and New Mexico
- Principal Characters: Georgia O’Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Brett, Mabel Dodge Luhan, D. H. Lawrence, Juan Hamilton, Jean Toomer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Art or artists, Marriage, Women’s issues, Creative process, Painting or painters, Photography or photographers, Southwest, Biography
- Locales: Virginia, New York, New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin
Form and Content
In Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O’Keeffe, Laurie Lisle provides young adult readers with an intimate look at the personality of the very private O’Keeffe. The book functions as a chronicle of O’Keeffe’s life, beginning with her parents, Ida Totto and Francis Calixtus O’Keeffe, and their forebears in the farmlands of Wisconsin. The biography’s structure parallels the chronology of O’Keeffe’s life: from the family farm in Wisconsin to Virginia, where they had moved, to Texas, where she worked as a teacher, and then back and...
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