Georgia O'Keeffe's Wartime Texas Letters
- ISBN-10
- 1623498503
- ISBN-13
- 9781623498504
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-04-30
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Author
- Amy Von Lintel
Description
In 1912, at age 24, Georgia O’Keeffe boarded a train in Virginia and headed west, to the prairies of the Texas Panhandle, to take a position as art teacher for the newly organized Amarillo Public Schools. Subsequently she would join the faculty at what was then West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M University). Already a thoroughly independent-minded woman, she maintained an active correspondence with her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and other friends back east during the years she lived in Texas. Amy Von Lintel brings to readers the collected O’Keeffe correspondence and added commentary and analysis, shining fresh light on a period of the artist’s life she characterizes as “some of the least appreciated in the vast O’Keeffe scholarship,” but also as “a time when she discovered her own voice as a young, successful, and independent woman . . . a dedicated faculty member at a brand-new college . . . a vibrant social butterfly . . . a progressive woman who spoke her mind and fought for her beliefs to be heard.” Although selected paintings by O’Keeffe that support the narrative are featured, this work focuses on O’Keeffe’s words. By doing so, Von Lintel aims to allow the artist’s voice to “emerge as a powerful witness of her own life, but also of western America in a pivotal moment of its development.” The result is an important new examination of one of our most beloved artists during a time when she was in the process of discovering her future identity.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933
By Sarah GreenoughCollects the private correspondence between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, revealing the ups and downs of their marriage, their thoughts on their work, and their friendships with other artists.
-
Equal under the Sky: Georgia O’Keeffe and Twentieth-Century Feminism
By Linda M. GrassoEqual under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O’Keeffe’s complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s.
-
Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas: A Guide
By Paul Howard Carlson, John Taylor BeckerGeorgia O'Keeffe in Texas: A Guide is different from previous O'Keeffe studies, as it provides a short biography of O'Keeffe on the people and events that influenced her Texas years.
-
Making a Hand: The Art of H. D. Bugbee
By Michael R. GrauerSure like them and I am writing you to ask if you have all of your pictures in a book—if you do—we want to buy one.” “After seventy years of waiting,” writes Michael R. Grauer in this colorful survey of Bugbee’s life and career, ...
-
Robert Smithson in Texas
By Elyse GoldbergCatalogue printed on the occasion of the exhibition 'Robert Smithson in Texas' at the Dallas Museum of Art, November 24, 2013 - April 27, 2014
-
Singular Women: Writing the Artist
By Kristen FredericksonHer rich correspondences with poet Clayton Eshleman and filmmaker Stan Brakhage are evidence of remarkable , mutual artistic influence , admiration , and support , as well as struggle over aesthetic and personal principles .
-
Crazy Fourth: How Jack Johnson Kept His Heavyweight Title and Put Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Map
By Toby SmithBoxing in New Mexico, 1868–1940. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. Cray, Ed, Jonathan Kotler, and Miles Beller. American Datelines: One Hundred and Forty Major News Stories from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Facts on File, ...
-
Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West
By Amy Von Lintel, Bonnie RoosThe book is focused on three artists: Elaine de Kooning, Jeanne Reynal, and Louise Nevelson.
-
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Well Lived
By Malcolm VaronThis book is the first collection of photographs to portray O'Keeffe and her surroundings in color.
-
Whatever Happened to Jacy Farrow?
By Ceil ClevelandThat question is answered in this memoir by Ceil Cleveland, the woman long-rumored to be the model for the Jacy Farrow character in the well-known McMurtry novel and Bogdanovich movie.