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Georgia O'Keeffe : to see takes time / Samantha Friedman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 180 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781633451476
  • 163345147X
Other title:
  • To see takes time
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- I have made this drawing several times / Samantha Friedman -- Single-track mind: methods and materials in Georgia O'Keeffe's serial works on paper / Laura Neufeld -- Saying things / Samantha Friedman -- Soaked with mountains / Samantha Friedman -- To paint nakedness / Samantha Friedman -- In waves / Samantha Friedman -- A very special person / Samantha Friedman -- In the air / Samantha Friedman.
Summary: "Recalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe later wrote, 'I have made this drawing several times--never remembering that I had made it before--and not knowing where the idea came from.' These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and graphite, belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction. In the formative years of 1915 to 1918, she made as many works on paper as she would in the next 40 years, producing sequences in watercolor of abstract lines, organic landscapes and nudes, along with charcoal drawings she would group according to the designation "specials." While her practice turned increasingly toward canvas in subsequent decades, important series on paper reappeared--including charcoal flowers of the 1930s, portraits of the 1940s and aerial views of the 1950s."-- Harvard Bookstore website (viewed on April 12, 2023)
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 759.13 O41 Available 33111011290315
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe wrote to Alfred Stieglitz that she had "made [a] drawing several times - never remembering that I had made it before - and not knowing where the idea came from." These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and graphite, belong to series, in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction. In the formative years of 1915 to 1918, she made as many works on paper as she would in the next forty years, producing sequences in watercolor of abstract lines, organic landscapes, and nudes, along with charcoal drawings she would group according to the designation "specials." While her practice turned increasingly toward canvas in subsequent decades, important series on paper reappeared - including charcoal flowers of the 1930s, portraits of the 1940s, and aerial views of the 1950s. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this richly illustrated volume highlights the drawings of an artist better known as a painter, and reunites individual sheets with their contextual series in order to illuminate O'Keeffe's persistently sequential practice.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 9-August 12, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references compiled by Emily Olek (page 174-175).

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry -- I have made this drawing several times / Samantha Friedman -- Single-track mind: methods and materials in Georgia O'Keeffe's serial works on paper / Laura Neufeld -- Saying things / Samantha Friedman -- Soaked with mountains / Samantha Friedman -- To paint nakedness / Samantha Friedman -- In waves / Samantha Friedman -- A very special person / Samantha Friedman -- In the air / Samantha Friedman.

"Recalling a charcoal she made in 1916, Georgia O'Keeffe later wrote, 'I have made this drawing several times--never remembering that I had made it before--and not knowing where the idea came from.' These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel and graphite, belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction. In the formative years of 1915 to 1918, she made as many works on paper as she would in the next 40 years, producing sequences in watercolor of abstract lines, organic landscapes and nudes, along with charcoal drawings she would group according to the designation "specials." While her practice turned increasingly toward canvas in subsequent decades, important series on paper reappeared--including charcoal flowers of the 1930s, portraits of the 1940s and aerial views of the 1950s."-- Harvard Bookstore website (viewed on April 12, 2023)

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