When Georgia O'Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she was
instantly drawn to the stark beauty of its unusual architectural
and landscape forms. In 1929, she began spending part of almost
every year painting there, first in Taos, and subsequently in and
around Alcalde, Abiquiu, and Ghost Ranch, with occasional
excursions to remote sites she found particularly compelling.
"Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico" is the first book to analyze the
artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes.
Beautifully illustrated and gracefully written, the book
accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe
Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It reproduces the exhibition's 50
paintings and includes striking photographs of the sites that
inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive
geology. The book examines the magnificence of O'Keeffe's work
through essays by three noted authors. Barbara Buhler Lynes,
Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and organizer of the
exhibition, discusses the relationship of the artist's paintings to
the places that inspired her.
Frederick Turner offers an illuminating essay contrasting
O'Keeffe's fabled aloofness from the well-established art colony in
Santa Fe with her intense closeness to the local landscape she so
fiercely loved. Lesley Poling-Kempes furnishes a fascinating
chronicle of O'Keeffe's years in the region as well as a useful
explanation of the geological forces that produced the intense
colors and dramatic shapes of the landscapes O'Keeffe painted.
EXHIBIT SCHEDULE:
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, New Mexico
June 11-September 12, 2004
Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, Ohio
October 1, 2004-January 16, 2005
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Buffalo, New York
January 28-May 08, 2005
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