Georgia O'Keeffe: Art and Letters

by Jack Cowart, Juan Hamilton, Georgia O'Keefe (Artist)

This magnificent catalogue of the National Gallery exhibition is now available in paperback. The book features letters from O'Keeffe to artists, critics, and friends, which will delight the reader with their eloquence. Size D. (Art/Architecture)

Genres: Art

306 pages, Hardcover

First published October 13, 1989

About the author

Dr. Jack Cowart (1945 - ) is an executive director of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

He has held leadership positions at numerous American art museums including the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National Gallery of Art in addition to being an expert on Henri Matisse and Roy Lichtenstein.

Reviews

[Marta E C R · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve been reading lots of books about Georgia O’Keeffe since being at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe last month. This was the first in which I got a good feel for who she was as a person, through her letters, in a way a bit of a window into her true self. Interestingly, and I don’t know why, the choice was made in this book not to include any letters she wrote to her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, during the months she was away from him in NM (he was in NY). The later letters seemed more full of business than personal sentiments, and I wish she’d revealed more about her own inner workings in them as she had in the earlier ones.