Georgia O'Keeffe
Subtitle: watercolors 1916-1918
Contributors: Lintel, Amy von; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Publisher: Radius Books; Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Published: 2016
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781942185048
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Watercolors 1916-1918
Description: Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors catalogues the first major exhibition of the nearly 50 watercolors created by O'Keeffe between 1916 and 1918, while she lived in Canyon, Texas. These years mark a period of radical innovation for the artist, during which she firmly established her commitment to abstraction. While her work in Texas is often understood as merely a prelude to her career in New York City, these watercolors and drawings mark a seminal stage in O'Keeffe's artistic formation, representing the pivotal intersection of her disciplined art practice and her allegiance to the revolutionary techniques of her mentor, Arthur Wesley Dow. O'Keeffe's watercolors explore the texture and landscape of the Texas desert and the artist's own body in an exceptionally fragile and sensitive medium, representing a substantial achievement in their own right. These early works also relate to O'Keeffe's large-scale oil paintings, which in their handling of color and texture in some ways seem to aspire to the condition of watercolor.
Notes: "Georgia O'Keeffe: Watercolors catalogs the first major exhibition titled Georgia O'Keeffe's Far Wide Texas (04/29/2016 -- 10/30-2016, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM) of the nearly 50 watercolors created by O'Keeffe between 1916 and 1918, while she lived in Canyon, Texas"--Publisher website.

Includes additional text that fits inside book pocket : Georgia O'Keeffe: at home in the wonderful nothing / by Amy Von Lintel. Santa Fe, NM : Radius Books, 2016. 57 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.