A review by booksrockcal
Georgia O'Keeffe by Lisa Mintz Messinger

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

Excellent book combining art historical analysis of Georgia O’Keefe’s paintings with her biography and place in American history and in the canon of art history. i learned so much from this book, read in conjunction with my trip to the O’Keefe Museum in Santa Fe.  I did not know O’Keefe graduated from high school in Virginia and taught at UVA. i had never seen her building painting nor considered her association with the artists Charles Sheeler and Arthur Dove. I learned a lot about her relationship with Steiglitz - how it inspired and stifled her. and her painting of the New Mexican landscape attained new meaning as I looked at them, read about them, and considered them in the context of the actual landscape.