Georgia O’Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place

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When Georgia O’Keeffe first visited New Mexico in 1917, she used to be right away drawn to the stark wonderful thing about its extraordinary architectural and landscape forms. In 1929, she started spending a part of almost yearly painting there, first in Taos, and due to this fact 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 in addition to 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 captivating chronicle of O’Keeffe’s years in the region in addition to a useful explanation of the geological forces that produced the intense colors and dramatic shapes of the landscapes O’Keeffe painted.

EXHIBIT SCHEDULE:
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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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