How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo

Author:Karen Karbo
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780762771318
Publisher: skirt!
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

† Verklempt, because Stieglitz was clearly completely, desperately in love with her, in a way that their husbands, who didn’t own a camera (much less know how to operate one) were not in love with them.

‡ Which I do, since the film was directed by the esteemed Bob Balaban, also an actor who costarred in Capote, where he played William Shawn, the editor of the New Yorker, a magazine that has always been obsessed with getting the facts right.

§ Or the 1921 equivalent, which may have actually been “What the fuck, Alfred?”

¶ Thank you, film school, for teaching me this handy, slightly pretentious phrase.

* According to Henry McBride, critic for the New York Sun, who saw through a lot of the nonsense and realized that O’Keeffe’s work was more complex than people gave her credit for.

†† Except in 1932 and 1938; in 1931 he opened her exhibit in December and it carried over into the next year. In 1937 he opened exhibits in both February and December. Stieglitz may not have been a faithful husband, but I defy anyone to find a more devoted promoter of a wife’s art.

‡‡ For a woman of the time she would have been considered educated.

§§ O’Keeffe was actually a practical and pragmatic intellectual, well-read in the classics.

¶¶ Thirty-two years old.

** Sure, all things being relative.

††† She’d never been to Europe.

‡‡‡ The song was called “Sodomy.” It’s a tribute to my mother’s essentially tolerant worldview that she never flinched when I put the album on the stereo and blared it throughout the house.

§§§ In the ’20s, American literature was reinventing itself; to capitalize on the trend, Stieglitz founded a literary magazine. O’Keeffe designed the cover.

¶¶¶ One of Freud’s famous primitive defense mechanisms.

*** Perhaps there’s a question half-forming in your mind. Why did Stieglitz and O’Keeffe live like grad students when there was obviously a load of Stieglitz money? Then, as now, just because the father makes a fortune, that doesn’t mean the son has access to it. Alfred was a trust fund baby, but only to a point. The money he received from his father covered his photographic pursuits; his living expenses were covered by his wife Emmy.

†††† Stieglitz borrowed $1,000 (about $15,000 in today’s dollars) from a well-to-do friend to finance his promise.

‡‡‡‡ It may have been sold in 1919. Accounts differ. I find it hard to care.

§§§§ The farmhouse had belonged to a pig farmer, but the Stieglitzes bought the farmer out and sold the pigs. They lived downwind from the farm, and the odor ruined their vacations.

¶¶¶¶ The term received its first big airplay in 1952, by Bill Haley.

**** The Quarters at Lake George vacation condos were eventually built on the Stieglitz property. There were no reports of any hideous Victorian busts unearthed during construction. Book online and bring a shovel.

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