Synopsis
Presents the life of the twentieth-century American painter who drew much of her artistic inspiration from nature.
Patricia Dole - Children's Literature
O'Keeffe, an innovative American artist, comes vigorously alive in this absorbing, well-written biography. Born to a farm family in Wisconsin in 1887, she began her art studies at age eleven. After training at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League, and the University of Virginia, and then teaching art in schools and colleges, she began working independently. The photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married eventually, exhibited her early drawings in his gallery and continued to support and encourage her until his death in 1946. A section of the book features his photographs. O'Keeffe was fascinated by nature. Her dramatic close-ups of flowers and her spare Southwestern landscapes are among her best-known works. When her eyesight failed, she took up pottery, and lived to be 98. The illustrations include both black and white and color photographs, maps, and excellent reproductions of her paintings on a variety of subjects. Timelines, personal quotations, a list of museums and galleries showing her works, a glossary, and an index are included. Part of the "Artists in Their Time" series. 2003, Franklin Watts,