Biography of Georgia O'keeffe by Kate Kastelein

Author:Kate Kastelein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hyperink
Published: 2013-04-10T04:00:00+00:00

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There hasn’t been much recent news of O’Keeffe since she died in 1986. However, an article from 1989 in The New York Times about her work is still extremely relevant, if not more so today. The New York Times reported:

This legend is being marketed as never before, in a spate of biographies, coffee-table books, calendars, posters and note paper. Though the artist herself has gone, the Georgia O'Keeffe industry is alive and well and generating money for her estate.

It is now possible to purchase prints of numerous O’Keeffe prints, mugs, shirts, and numerous other items with her works and/or her likeness on them from a number of different sources. Her popularity is just as strong in 2012 as it was in 1989. Though one has to wonder if she would have agreed with this practice. As the The O’Keeffe Museum reports:

O'Keeffe rarely allowed the reproduction of her work for three-dimensional, commercial purposes, but was generous in allowing its reproduction in scholarly books and exhibitions. Permission was often granted if the image was assigned the proper copyright, surrounded by a white border of appropriate size, not cropped or altered in any way, bled to the edges, or printed over with text.

This past Valentine’s day, The Washington Post urged readers to look to the correspondence between O’Keeffe and Stieglitz for a peek inside a true love affair.

An example from May 16, 1922, O’Keeffe writes: “I seem to feel my body very intensely this morning — so much so that I wonder if there is anything else to me — It’s my body that wants you and it seems to be the only thought or desire that I have — It even seems to be my only memory of you — two bodies that have fused — have touched with completeness at both ends making a complete circuit — making them one — a circle that nothing can break — You have given me — the circle of the most painfully intense pleasure…..”

800 of their love letters were published in a book, My Faraway One, published in 2011.

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