Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life (new edition)

This is without question the best book ever written on O-Keeffe' New YorkerBorn on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O-Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her twenties had become a formidable artist, and a strikingly original and spirited young woman. Moving first to Chicago and then to New York to pursue her studies, her consciousness was enlarged by her discovery of the modernist movement, and by the work both produced and shown by the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. Making her way in the world - first as a commercial artist and then as an art teacher - O-Keeffe developed her own original style. When Alfred Stieglitz discovered her work he was the first to exhibit it. Twenty-three years her senior, Stieglitz later fell in love with the artist as well as the work. O-Keeffe moved to New York in 1918 and married Stieglitz in 1924. She found herself a muse as well as an artist, and ente