Foursome
Page 44
“It promises”: AS to PS, August 31, 1916, CCP.
“For ten years”: AS, “Photographs by Paul Strand,” Camera Work 48 (October 1916): pp. 11–12.
“whom life had battered”: PS, interview, June 25, 1974, Homer, p. 11.
“just the straight goods”: AS to R. C. Bayley, November 1, 1916, ASA/YCAL.
“the first photographer”: AS, quoted in Naef, unpaginated (on #48).
“The eleven photographs”: unsigned [AS], “Our Illustrations,” Camera Work 49/50 (June 1917): 36.
“brutally direct”: ibid.
CHAPTER 4: A WOMAN ON PAPER
“I went in a year ago”: GOK to AS, July 25, 1916, MFO, pp. 15–16.
“Feeling more dead”: AS, quoted in Norman, Alfred Stieglitz, p. 130.
“She’s an unusual woman”: AS, quoted in AP to GOK, January 1, 1916, Giboire, ed., pp. 115, 116.
“Woman unafraid”: AS, October 9, 1919, “Woman in Art,” Norman, p. 137.
“Do you like my music”: GOK to AP, June 1915, Giboire, ed., p. 5.
“Music—Voices—Singing—Water”: AS to GOK, July 10, 1916, MFO, p. 13.
“They are as if”: AS to GOK, June 1916, Pollitzer, pp. 139–40.
Coming upon her work: Sarah Greenough writes, “What Stieglitz saw in both Strand’s and O’Keeffe’s work were possibilities, the scattered germs of thoughts that he believed…held the potential to merge modernist vision with an expression of the American experience”; Greenough, ed., Modern Art and America, p. 249.
“something I’d wanted”: Tomkins, GOK notes, MOMA.
“I didn’t understand”: GOK, quoted in Lisle, pp. 72–73.
“Then I hurried down”: AP to GOK, October 1915, Giboire, ed., pp. 38–39.
“I believe I would rather”: GOK to AP, October 1915, ibid., p. 40.
“Little did I dream”: AS to GOK, July 10, 1916, MFO, p. 13.
“I made a crazy thing”: GOK to AP, October 1915, Giboire, ed. p. 66.
“Anita—do you feel”: GOK to AP, October 1915, ibid., p. 46.
“We’re trying to live”: AP to GOK, October 26, 1915, Pollitzer, p. 35.
“I want to love”: GOK to AP, January 14, 1916, Giboire, ed., p. 123.
“I said something”: GOK to AWM, Jan. 6, 1916, MFC.
“Columbia is a nightmare”: GOK to AP, January 4, 1916, Giboire, ed., p. 118.
“there is something wonderful”: GOK to AP, January 14, 1916, ibid., p. 123.
“I want to go”: GOK to AP, January 1916, ibid., p. 124.
“want to tell all the Methodists”: GOK to AP, January 28, 1916, ibid., p. 127.
“expressive not simply”: Greenough, ed., Modern Art and America, p. 250.
“You have no more”: AS, quoted in Norman, Alfred Stieglitz, p. 131.
“Miss O’Keeffe looks”: Henry Tyrrell, “New York Art Exhibition and Gallery Notes,” Christian Science Monitor, June 2, 1916, reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 166.
“ ‘291’ had never”: AS, Camera Work 48 (October 1916): 12–13; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 166.
“I wish you would”: GOK to AWM, May 3, 1916, MFC.
“I have spent most of the time”: GOK to AP, June 1916, Giboire, ed., p. 159.
“Love is great to give”: GOK to AWM, June 20, 1916, MFC.
“Those drawings”: GOK to AS, June 22, 1916, MFO, p. 9.
“just plain stupid”: AS to GOK, June 26, 1916, MFO, p. 11.
“I think they are”: GOK to AS, July 3, 1916, MFO, p. 11.
“My only value”: AS to GOK, July 10, 1916, MFO, p. 12.
“I think letters”: GOK to AS, July 11, 1916, MFO, p. 13.
“I can’t bear”: AS to GOK, July 16, 1916, MFO, p. 15.
“I don’t care”: GOK to AS, July 25, 1916, MFO, p. 15.
“Will the pictures”: AS to GOK, July 31, 1916, MFO, p. 17.
“You will probably laugh”: GOK to AS, August 6, 1916, MFO, pp. 18–19.
“You are a careless mother”: AS to GOK, August 16, 1916, MFO, pp. 20, 22.
“go to you and the Lake”: GOK to AS, September 3, 1916, MFO, p. 27.
“the only place”: GOK to AP, October 1916, Giboire, ed., p. 206.
“Her clothing”: Ruby Cole Archer, quoted in Robinson, p. 159.
“The Plains sends”: GOK to AS, September 3, 1916, MFO, p. 27.
“It’s a great privilege”: AS to GOK, September 20, 1916, MFO, p. 29.
“sunny letter”: GOK to AS, September 24, 1916; “the quiet dark night,” GOK to AS, September 26, 1916; both MFO, p. 34.
“I could so easily”: GOK to AS, September 26, 1916, MFO, p. 35.
“I am not writing as”: AS to GOK, September 30, 1916, MFO, p. 38.
“Photographing always”: AS to GOK, September 28, 1916, MFO, p. 37.
“The Lake”: AS to GOK, September 30, 1916, MFO, p. 38.
“I remember the shapes”: GOK to AS, October 1, 1916, MFO, pp. 39–40.
“I wish you could see”: GOK to AP, October 1916, Giboire, ed., p. 207.
“The plains”: GOK to AP, October 1916, ibid., p. 209.
“It is absurd”: GOK to AP, September 11, 1916, ibid., p. 184.
“I had nothing but”: GOK, Georgia O’Keeffe, unpaginated.
“I think all the world”: GOK to AP, October 3, 1916, quoted in Udall, p. 26.
“it would have been nice”: GOK to AWM, September 25, 1916, MFC.
“It will interest me”: GOK to AS, October 26, 1916, MFO, pp. 49–50.
“To Georgia O’Keeffe”: AS dedication, October 28, 1916, cited in MFO, p. 51. After prolonged labor pains, he teased, he had given birth: “Father healthy. —Child a book.”
“No one will ever”: AS to GOK, October 26, 1916, MFO, p. 48.
“I can’t imagine”: GOK to AS, October 31, 1916, MFO, p. 57. GOK wrote to Macmahon on December 28, 1916, of her wish for a child with him: “There had never been anyone else that I would want—or would have for the father of my child” (MFC).
“in a curious way”: GOK to AS, November 4, 1916, MFO, p. 60.
“I’m glad you feel”: AS to GOK, November 9, 1916, MFO, p. 60, n. 134.
“I have to smile”: GOK to AS, November 22, 1916, MFO, p. 79.
“immensely”: AS to GOK, November 27, 1916, MFO, p. 81.
“very fine”: AS to GOK, December 15, 1916, MFO, p. 89.
“I love the snow”: GOK to AS, November 4, 1916, MFO, p. 59.
“I wanted you”: GOK to AS, February 4, 1917, MFO, p. 103.
“It’s like dope”: AS to GOK, December 21, 1916, MFO, p. 90.
“I could see your face”: AS to GOK, November 10, 1916, MFO, p. 64.
“I put out my hand”: GOK to AS, November 13, 1916, MFO, p. 73.
“I’d get it out”: GOK to AS, November 27, 1916, MFO, p. 83.
“The snow as bed”: AS to GOK, December 21, 1916, MFO, p. 91.
“make people say”: GOK to AS, November 13, 1916, MFO, pp. 72–73.
“He wanted to touch me”: GOK to AS, January 2, 1917, MFO, p. 98.
“No one”: AS to GOK, December 26, 1916, MFO, p. 95.
“a sort of wild”: AS to GOK, November 16, 1916, MFO, p. 74.
“a curious kind of balance”: GOK to AS, January 3, 1917, MFO, p. 99.
“A train was coming”: GOK to AS, November 30, 1916, MFO, p. 84.
“You saw the big black locomotive”: AS to GOK, December 4, 1916, MFO, p. 86.
“You are really here”: GOK to AS, December 23, 1916, MFO, pp. 93–94.
CHAPTER 5: PASSION UNDER CONTROL
“some terrible c
ommon suffering”: AS to GOK, December 21, 1916, MFO, pp. 91–92.
“A wealthy Emmy”: Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz, pp. 384–85.
“If there is war”: AS to GOK, February 6, 1917, MFO, p. 106.
“It will give his Scotchness”: GOK to AS, December 29, 1916, MFO, p. 97, n. 211.
“a toned-down”: AS to GOK, January 16, 1917, MFO, p. 102.
“Knowing that 291”: GOK to AS, March 15, 1917, MFO, p. 124.
“tornado of letting go”: AS to GOK, February 11, 1917, MFO, pp. 110–11.
“I’ve said some scandalous”: GOK to AS, February 16, 1917, MFO, p. 113.
“right or wrong”: Kindred Watkins to GOK, May 6, 1917, MFO, p. 136, n. 294.
“art game”: AS to GOK, February 22, 1917, MFO, p. 115.
“very informal”: AS to GOK, March 26, 1917, MFO, p. 124.
“There is a religious”: AS to GOK, April 2, 1917, MFO, p. 132.
“The hanging alphabetically”: AS to GOK, April 10, 1917, MFO, pp. 132–33.
“Its lines are very fine”: AS to GOK, April 19, 1917, MFO, p. 135.
“atavistic minds”: editorial, The Blind Man 2 (May 1917): 4–5. Stieglitz also contributed a letter saying that the Independents’ purpose would have been better served by withholding the exhibitors’ names.
“What’s the use”: GOK to AS, April 24, 1917, MFO, pp. 139–40.
“Waving flags”: AS to GOK, May 1, 1917, MFO, p. 142.
“It was him”: GOK to AP, June 20, 1917, Giboire, ed., p. 255.
“When she wants something”: AS, quoted in Seligmann, Alfred Stieglitz Talking, p. 13.
“I’m so full of you”: AS to GOK, June 3, 1917, MFO, p. 154.
“The interesting but little-known”: Henry Tyrrell, “New York Art Exhibition and Gallery Notes: Esoteric Art at ‘291,’ ” Christian Science Monitor, May 4, 1917; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 167–68.
“a man’s and a woman’s”: ibid.
“I had a wonderful time”: GOK to AP, June 20, 1917, Giboire, ed., p. 256.
“making Strand photographs”: GOK to PS, June 3, 1917, CCP.
“frozen”: GOK to AS, June 1, 1917, MFO, pp. 152–53.
“The wife and I”: AS to GOK, July 2, 1917, MFO, p. 173.
“cubby-hole”: Bruno, “The Passing of ‘291,’ ” Pearson’s 38 (March 1918): 402.
“Where in any medium”: PS, “Photography,” Seven Arts 2 (August 1912): 524–25.
“Something—somehow”: PS to AS, July 3, 1917, ASA/YCAL.
“It seems impossible”: PS to AS, July 31, 1917, ASA/YCAL.
“Of course the War”: AS to PS, August 18, 1917, CCP.
“I felt as I left”: GOK to AS, June 5, 1917, MFO, p. 155.
“Some folks”: GOK to AS, June 28, 1917, MFO, p. 165.
“The work—Yes”: GOK to PS, June 12, 1917, CCP.
“I am the most talked of woman”: GOK to AS, June 11, 1917, partially quoted in MFO, p. 154.
“I sang you three songs”: GOK to PS, June 12, 1917, CCP.
“I love myself”: GOK to AS, June 16, 1917, MFO, p. 161.
“They were surprised”: AS, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait, unpaginated.
“I could do thousands”: AS to GOK, June 8, 1917, MFO, p. 161, n. 338.
“You—believing in me”: GOK to AS, June 29, 1917, MFO, p. 167.
“Passion under control”: AS to GOK, June 23, 1917, MFO, p. 163.
“I couldn’t get”: GOK to AS, July 1, 1917, MFO, p. 169.
“I’d like to kiss it”: AS to GOK, July 2, 1917, MFO, pp. 173–74.
“All of me has been yours”: GOK to AS, July 2, 1917, MFO, pp. 171–72.
“I’d like to put my arm”: GOK to AS, July 13, 1917, MFO, p. 177.
“A woman lay in my arms”: AS to GOK, July 28, 1917, MFO, pp. 177–78.
“Your songs”: GOK to PS, June 26, 1917, CCP.
“This spring I’ve been”: GOK to AWM, received June 20, 1917, Robinson, p. 186.
“You probably wouldn’t”: GOK to AWM, July 1917, Robinson, pp. 186–87.
“Living with him”: GOK to AS, August 6, 1917, MFO, p. 180.
“I must find something”: AS to GOK, July 28, 1917, MFO, p. 178.
“I’m glad you followed”: AS to GOK, August 27, 1917, MFO, p. 186.
“Photographing excited me”: ibid.
“where the nothingness”: GOK to PS, August 15, 1917, CCP.
“She has gone through”: AS to PS, August 18, 1917, CCP.
“I wonder why”: GOK to AS, August 6, 1917, MFO, p. 180.
“like this country”: GOK to PS, August 10, 1917, CCP.
“gloriously free”: GOK to PS, September 12, 1917, CCP.
“one of the finer parts”: PS to AS, September 15, 1917, YCAL. Strand’s poems have not survived.
“devoid of ideas”: AS to GOK, September 30, 1917, MFO, p. 193.
“What was 291?”: PS, “What Was 291?,” October 1917, unpublished typescript, CCP.
“I love you”: GOK to PS, October 24, 1917, CCP.
“made me feel just like”: GOK to AS, October 29, 1917, MFO, p. 203.
“I’ve been wondering”: GOK to AS, September 20, 1917, MFO, p. 191.
“because everything seems”: GOK to PS, October 30, 1917, CCP.
“We meet equally”: GOK to AS, October 1, 1917, MFO, p. 193.
“an explosion”: GOK to AS, December 7, 1917, MFO, pp. 217–18.
“wasn’t the flag”: GOK to AS, December 14, 1917, MFO, p. 222.
“It’s like father”: GOK to AS, December 17, 1917, MFO, p. 223.
“I’m glad to know”: AS to GOK, December 28, 1917, MFO, p. 219.
“I know what you are”: AS to GOK, January 2, 1918, MFO, p. 240, n. 476.
“cut out of altogether different”: GOK to AS, January 18, 1918, MFO, p. 235.
“I’d like to be buried”: GOK to AS, January 31, 1918, MFO, p. 246.
“He sat there like”: AS to GOK, January 22, 1918, MFO, p. 243.
“just like a child”: PS to AS, May 15, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“stability of living”: PS to AS, May 17, 1918 (letter X), ASA/YCAL.
“the most helpless”: GOK to AS, May 21, 1918, MFO, p. 290.
“You are such a perfect god”: GOK to AS, May 25, 1918, MFO, p. 292.
“no passion”: PS to AS, May 29, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“I can write now”: AS to GOK, May 26, 1918, MFO, p. 296.
“if she wants to come”: AS to PS, May 25 [?—postmark fuzzy], 1918, CCP.
“I am in a state”: PS to AS, May 30, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“The most extraordinary”: PS to AS, June 1, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“If I had let anybody”: GOK to AS, June 3, 1918, MFO, p. 298.
CHAPTER 6: SQUARING THE CIRCLE
“But it was exciting”: GOK, Georgia O’Keeffe, unpaginated.
“We have talked over”: AS to ESD, June 16, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“I have nothing to do with it”: AS to GOK, c. June 10, 1918, MFO, p. 300.
“I’ve been lying here”: GOK to AS, June 14, 1918, MFO, p. 302.
“intensely beautiful”: AS to ESD, July 2, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“These last 10 days”: AS to AD, June 18, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
newly released correspondence: See MFO, p. 299.
“He said: I think”: AS to GOK, mid-June 1918, MFO, p. 303.
“I’ll make you fall in love”: AS to GOK, July 2, 1918, MFO, pp. 306–7.
belong among O’Keeffe’s works: Janet Malcolm takes this view in Diana & Nikon, p. 122.
“ongoing exchange of observation”: Anne Wagner, Three A
rtists (Three Women), p. 92.
“an intricate psychological pas de deux”: Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz, p. 406.
“He wanted head and hands”: AS, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait, unpaginated.
“[Stieglitz] asked me”: ibid.
“somewhat lost”: AS to GOK, mid-June 1918, MFO, p. 303.
“The days here”: AS to PS, August 4, 1918, CCP.
“moving out and away”: PS to AS, August 10, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“It’s a wonder”: AS to GOK, August 5, 1929, MFO, pp. 506–7. Greenough identifies August 9 as “virginity day,” thus establishing that it came after the taking of AS’s most erotic portraits of GOK. See MFO, pp. 299, 311.
“Since I saw you”: AS to AD, August 15, 1918, quoted in AS, The Key Set, p. 322.
“mess”: AS to PS, September 15, 1918, CCP.
“Grateful—it seems funny”: PS to AS, September 20, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“Loveliness—Savage Force”: AS to PS, November 17, 1918, CCP.
“hell”: PS to AS, October 11, 1918, ASA/YCAL.
“I hope you’ll be kept away”: AS to PS, c. November 8, 1918, CCP.
“would not do at all”: AS to PS, November 17, 1918, CCP.
“closely related”: PS to Strands, October 25, 1918, CCP.
“I need the livingness”: PS to AS, January 10, 1919, ASA/YCAL.
“almost like a murderer”: PS to AS, February 6, 1919, ASA/YCAL.
“unlike anything”: AS to PS, January 28, 1919, CCP.
“Your photographs and her work”: PS to AS, April 15, 1919, ASA/YCAL.
“It all reminds me of Nero”: AS to PS, March 28, 1919, CCP.
“Made me think of them”: PS to AS, June 2, 1919, ASA/YCAL.
“They have found a little island”: Herbert Seligmann to PS, n.d. [June 1919], CCP.
“Is it a madness”: AS to PS, June 8, 1919, CCP.
“As I print”: AS to PS, August 11, 1919, CCP.
“an embodiment of a life”: A copy of this letter is included in PS to AS, August 9, 1919, ASA/YCAL.
“bee’s-eye view”: Sarah Whittaker Peters, Becoming O’Keeffe, p. 228.
“I’m glad we had you”: AS to PS, October 6, 1910, CCP.
“very pretty girl”: PS to AS, October 13, 1919, ASA/YCAL.