Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico

by Lynes, Barbara Buhler

• ISBN13: 9780691116594
• ISBN10: 0691116598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-04
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

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 Mexicois 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

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	7	(4)
Glorgia O'keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place	11	(48)
Barbara Buhler Lynes
A Sense of Place I: Taos, Alcalde, Tierra Azul, Ghost Ranch, Black Place	59	(18)
A Call To Place Lesley Poling-Kempes	77	(12)
A Sense of Place II: Chama River, White Place, Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch	89	(20)
On Her Conquest of Space	109	(16)
Frederick W. Turner
Chronology	125	(3)
Checklist	128	(6)
Suggestions for Further Reading	134	(2)
Acknowledgments	136	(2)
Index	138	(5)
Photography Credits	143