Georgia O’Keeffe and artworks E-Book

Janet Souter

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 58

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

In 1905 Georgia travelled to Chicago to study painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1907 she enrolled at the Art Students’ League in New York City, where she studied with William Merritt Chase. During her time in New York she became familiar with the 291 Gallery owned by her future husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1912, she and her sisters studied at university with Alon Bement, who employed a somewhat revolutionary method in art instruction originally conceived by Arthur Wesley Dow. In Bement’s class, the students did not mechanically copy nature, but instead were taught the principles of design using geometric shapes. They worked at exercises that included dividing a square, working within a circle and placing a rectangle around a drawing, then organising the composition by rearranging, adding or eliminating elements. It sounded dull and to most students it was. But Georgia found that these studies gave art its structure and helped her understand the basics of abstraction. During the 1920s O’Keeffe also produced a huge number of landscapes and botanical studies during annual trips to Lake George. With Stieglitz’s connections in the arts community of New York – from 1923 he organised an O’Keeffe exhibition annually – O’Keeffe’s work received a great deal of attention and commanded high prices. She, however, resented the sexual connotations people attached to her paintings, especially during the 1920s when Freudian theories became a form of what today might be termed “pop psychology”. The legacy she left behind is a unique vision that translates the complexity of nature into simple shapes for us to explore and make our own discoveries. She taught us there is poetry in nature and beauty in geometry. Georgia O’Keeffe’s long lifetime of work shows us new ways to see the world, from her eyes to ours.

Leseprobe

Janet Souter

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© 2023, Parkstone Press USA, New York

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Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

ISBN: 978-1-78160-859-3

Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A

A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills,1946

Abstraction I, 1921

Abstraction IX, 1916

Abstraction White Rose II, 1927

Abstraction,(1916) 1979-1980

Abstraction,(1945) 1979-1980

Abstraction,1946

Alligator Pears in Basket No. 2, 1923

An Orchid, 1941

Apple Family II, 1920

Apple Family III, 1921

B

Back of Marie’s No. 4, 1931

Bella Donna (Two Jimson Weeds), 1939

Black and Purple Petunias, 1925

Black Cross, 1929

Black Hills with Cedar, 1942

Black Hollyhock with Blue Larkspur, 1929

Black Iris III, 1926

Black Petunias and White Morning Glory, 1926

Black Place Green, 1949

Black Place IV, 1944

Black Rock with Blue III,1970

Black Rock with Red, 1971

Blue and Green Music, 1919

Blue B, 1959

Blue II, 1958

Blue Line, 1919

Blue Lines No. 10, 1916

Blue, Black and Grey,1960

Blue-Headed Indian Doll, 1935

C

Canna - Red and Orange, 1922

Canyon with Crows, 1917

Church Steeple, 1930

City Night, 1926

Cliffs beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall, 1943

Cross, 1929

Cup of Silver Ginger, 1939

D

Dark Tree Trunks, 1946

Dead Cottonwood Tree, 1943

E

Evening Star, No. III, 1917

Evening Star, No. VI, 1917

Evening Star, No. VII, 1917

Evening, 1916

F

Figures under Rooftop, 1918

Flower Abstraction, 1924

From a Day with Juan IV,c. 1976-1977

From the Faraway, Nearby, 1938

From the Lake No. 1, 1924

From the Lake No. 3, 1924

From the Plains II, 1954

From the Plains, 1919

G

Gerald’s Tree I, 1937

Grapes on a White Dish - Dark Rim, 1920

Green Patio Door, 1955

I

In the Patio VIII, 1950

It was Blue and Green, 1960

It was Red and Pink, 1959

J

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. II, 1930

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. V, 1930

Jimson Weed, 1932

K

Kachina, 1945

L

Ladder to the Moon, 1958

Lake George Window, 1929

Lake George with Crows, 1921

Leaf Motif, No. 1, 1924

Leaves of a Plant, 1942

Light Coming on the Plains II, 1917

Light Coming on the Plains III, 1917

Light Iris, 1924

M

Maple and Cedar (Red), 1923

Mule’s Skull with Pink Poinsettias, 1936

Music, Pink and Blue II, 1919

My Autumn, 1929

My Last Door, 1952/1954

N

New York Street with Moon, 1925

New York, Night, 1928-1929

Nude No.IV, 1917

Nude Series VIII, 1917

Nude Series XII, 1917

O

Only One, 1959

Orange and Red Streak, 1919

Oriental Poppies, 1927

P

Patio with Cloud, 1956

Pedernal, Blue and Yellow, 1941

Pelvis III, 1944

Pelvis with Moon, 1943

Pelvis with Pedernal, 1943

Pelvis with Shadows and the Moon, 1934

Pink and Blue Mountain, 1917

Pink and Green Mountains III, 1917

Plums, 1920

Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe

R

Radiator Building, Night, New York, 1927

Red and Yellow Cliffs, 1940

Red Hills with Pedernal, 1936

Red Mesa, 1917

Red, White, and Blue, 1931

Red, Yellow and Black Streak, 1924

S

Series I, No. 4, 1918

Series I, No. 8, 1919

Shell II, 1928

Single Lily with Red, 1928

Sky above Clouds I,1963

Sky above Clouds IV, 1965

Special No. 21, 1916

Special No. 22, 1916

Special No. 32, 1914

Spring, 1948

Stump in Red Hills, 1940

Summer Days, 1936

T

Tan, Orange, Yellow, Lavender, 1959

The Shelton with Sunspots, 1926

Three Women, 1918

Two Calla Lillies on Pink, 1928

Two Jimson Weeds with Green Leaves and Blue Sky, 1938

U

Untitled, Ghost Ranch Landscape, 1940

W

Wave, Night, 1928

White Iris, 1926

Window, Red and Blue Sill, 1918

Woman with Apron, 1918

Foreword

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe.

Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe

Biography

1887:

Georgia O’Keeffe is born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, the second of seven children of Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O’Keeffe.

1902:

The family moves to Virginia. She attends art classes for five years.

1905-1906:

Georgia studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.

1907-1908:

She studies at the Art Students League School in New York.

1908:

She wins the League’s William Merritt Chase still-life prize for her painting Untitled (Dead Rabbit with Copper Pot).

1908-1910:

She temporarily abandons painting to devote herself to a career as a commercial artist, painting mainly for advertisements.

1912:

She teaches art at Amarillo (in Texas) and at the University of Virginia.

1915:

She teaches art at Columbia College in South Carolina. At the same time, whilst waiting to discover her own personal style, she begins painting abstracts in charcoal.

1916:

She sends these paintings to a friend, Anita Pollitzer who shows them to the renowned Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia returns to New York to teach at Teachers College.

1917:

Her first exhibition opens in April at the Alfred Stieglitz Gallery in Chicago.

1918:

Alfred Stieglitz offers her financial help, allowing her to paint for a year in New York. She begins to paint her flowers, still the most famous of her works today.

1918-1929:

Her interest in oil-painting grows; she creates abstract works, especially landscapes and still-lifes.

1923:

From 1923, and up to his death, Alfred Stieglitz works assiduously to promote O’Keeffe and her work, organizing annual exhibitions at the Anderson Gallery (from 1923 to 1925), at the Intimate Gallery (from 1925 to 1929) and at the American Place (from 1929 to 1946).

1924:

Marriage of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.

1925:

They move into the Shelton Hotel in New York where they will live for twelve years. The apartment, situated on the thirtieth floor of the building, offers an unrestricted view of New York which Georgia paints numerous times.

1927:

An exhibition is dedicated to her at the Brooklyn Museum.

1928:

She sells six paintings representing lilies for a record price of $25,000 which brings her to the foreground of public attention. However, Georgia O’Keeffe feels the need again to travel to find new sources of inspiration for her painting.

1929:

She leaves to go East, to Taos in New Mexico. This journey will change her life; she discovers a landscape of austere beauty and infinite space. She visits and paints the mountains and the deserts of the region as well as the historical Ranchos mission church in Taos. She returns every summer to “her country” up until the death of Stieglitz.

1930-1931: