Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico: A Sense of Place | 
 enlarge | Authors: Barbara Buhler Lynes, Lesley Poling-kempes, Frederick W. Turner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 9.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0691116598
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.13
EAN: 9780691116594
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Publication Date: May 4, 2004
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pWhen 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. iGeorgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico/i is the first book to analyze the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes./ppBeautifully 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./pp 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./pp/ppbEXHIBIT SCHEDULE:/b/ppGeorgia O'Keeffe Museumbr/Santa Fe, New Mexicobr/June 11-September 12, 2004/pp Columbus Museum of Artbr/Columbus, Ohiobr/October 1, 2004-January 16, 2005/pp Albright-Knox Art Gallerybr/Buffalo, New Yorkbr/January 28-May 08, 2005/p
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 One of the best books on O'keeffe February 23, 2008
Tara M. Wheeler (Ranchos de Taos)
To understand this woman's art, you have to know her place. br / br /This is it. Her wellspring. The place she felt at home. br / br /I adore this book. To see pictures of the places right next to O'keeffe's versions is just stunning. br / br /I believe god gave her Perdinal, after all.
 Living in New Mexico July 28, 2007
Debby Caviness
I live 12 miles from Abiquiu, New Mexico where Georgia O'Keefe lived and painted the last 39 plus years of her life. One can only imagine the beauty from her paintings unless you've had the opportunity to see it in person. The book does have quite a few of the paintings she did while living in Abiquiu and at Ghost Ranch; however, if you are interested in reading about her life, the book to read is Portrait of An Artist; A Biography of Georgia O'Keefe by Laurie Lisle. I couldn't put the book down!
A Perfect Place August 19, 2005
E. Bebo (Southwestern US)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I've toured her home in Abiquiu, visited the museum in Santa Fe, and now toured Ghost Ranch to view the locales of many of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings. This book is a perfect reminder of these experiences and one I already treasure.
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