“If you were doing”: Toomer, quoted in Kerman and Eldridge, p. 107.
“a vivid sense”: Toomer to AS, January 10, 1924, Whalan, ed., p. 189.
“When I say ‘white’ ”: Toomer to GOK, January 13, 1924, ibid., p. 191.
“a life and a way”: Toomer, quoted in Whalan, ed., p. xxxv. Toomer saw Gurdjieff’s system as “the idea that man is composed of body, emotions, and mind, and that normal living should provide means for the adequate constructive functioning of these three parts” (ibid.).
“inward re-buildings”: Toomer to AS, February 20, 1924, Whalan, ed., p. 195.
“Toomer comes to unlimber”: Rosenfeld, Men Seen, p. 233.
“Stieglitz once more”: AS, Catalog of Third Exhibition of Photography by Alfred Stieglitz (New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924).
“very much on the ground”: GOK to Sherwood Anderson, February 11, 1924, Cowart and Hamilton, p. 176.
“I have kept my pictures”: GOK, quoted in Alfred Stieglitz Presents Fifty-One Recent Pictures: Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings by Georgia O’Keeffe, American (New York: Anderson Galleries, 1924).
“the secrets of the universe”: Henry McBride, “Stieglitz, Teacher, Artist; Pamela Bianco’s New Work: Stieglitz-O’Keefe [sic] Show at Anderson Galleries,” New York Herald, March 9, 1924; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 200.
“This is O’Keeffe’s show”: Helen Appleton Read, “News and Views on Current Art: Georgia O’Keeffe Again Introduced by Stieglitz at the Anderson Galleries,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 9, 1924; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 201.
“about as far in finish”: McBride, New York Herald, March 9, 1924.
“emotionally torturous”: Elizabeth Luther Cary, “Art: Exhibitions of the Week: ‘Spiritual America’ Print,” New York Times, March 9, 1924; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 198.
“Psychoanalysts tell us”: Helen Appleton Read, “Georgia O’Keeffe—Woman Artist Whose Art Is Sincerely Feminine,” Brooklyn Sunday Eagle Magazine, April 6, 1924; quoted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 211.
“a funny mob”: RSS to PS, March 13, 1924, no. 2, CCP.
“rotten”: RSS to PS, March 14, 1924, CCP.
“prostitution”: GOK to Catherine O’Keeffe, February 8, 1924, Robinson, pp. 265–66.
“Here in this American land”: PS, “Georgia O’Keeffe,” unpublished manuscript, CCP.
“a communicable aesthetic”: PS, “Georgia O’Keeffe,” Playboy: A Portfolio of Art and Satire 9 (July 1924): 16–20; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 216–20.
“It seems we have been moving”: GOK to Sherwood Anderson, June 11, 1924, Cowart and Hamilton, pp. 177–78.
“Even the old chestnut tree”: AS to RSS, June 11, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“although that crabbed wench”: RSS to AS, June 19, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“I thought of you frequently”: AS to RSS, June 26, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“You have achieved”: AS to PS, June 28, 1924, CCP.
“I have to keep”: GOK to Sherwood Anderson, June 11, 1924, Cowart and Hamilton, p. 178.
“I like getting what I’ve got”: GOK, quoted in Carol Taylor, “Lady Dynamo,” New York World-Telegram, March 31, 1945; quoted in Drohojowska-Philp, p. 239.
“She is rapidly coming into her own”: “We Nominate for the Hall of Fame,” Vanity Fair, July 22, 1924, p. 49.
“Georgia looked at home”: PS to AS, June 25, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“There’ll be no trouble”: AS to RSS, July 28, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“This thing with G.O.K.”: RSS to PS, August 2, 1924, CCP.
“no fuss of any kind”: RSS to PS, August 4, 1924, CCP.
“Don’t fret for a minute”: RSS to PS, August 5, 1924, CCP.
“It’s much nicer”: RSS to PS, August 7, 1924, CCP.
“She is very unhappy” to “hurt one another”: RSS to PS, August 8, 1924, CCP.
“She has been pushed”: RSS to PS, August 10, 1924, CCP.
“I don’t like the things”: RSS to PS, August 4, 1924, CCP.
“I do see all”: AS to RSS, September 5, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“With Rosenfeld”: Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz, p. 463.
O’Keeffe once declared: Hartley, “Some Women Artists in Modern Painting,” Adventures in the Arts, p. 116.
“human trees”: AS to Anne Brigman, December 24, 1949, ASA/YCAL.
“I am glad”: RSS to AS, September 9, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“sensitive plants”: AS to RSS, September 16, 1924, ASA/YCAL
“You really had nothing”: AS to RSS, October 3, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“They show there’s life”: RSS to AS, September 9, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“this jangly time”: RSS to AS, September 21, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“I’ve learned to make myself”: RSS to AS, October 8, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“Someday I’m going off”: RSS to AS, October 24, 1924, ASA/YCAL.
“To Alfred Stieglitz”: Sherwood Anderson, A Story Teller’s Story (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1924).
“We’ve again made conduits”: Jean Toomer to AS, June 30 1924, Whalan, p. 203.
“I wasn’t going to”: GOK, quoted in Sieberling, “Horizons,” Life, March 1, 1968, p. 40.
“What does it matter”: GOK, quoted in Tomkins GOK notes, MOMA.
CHAPTER 11: THE TREENESS OF A TREE
“I am very glad”: AS to RSS, February 11, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“there was an immense buzz”: Henry McBride, “The Stieglitz Group at Anderson’s,” New York Sun, March 14, 1925; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 225–27.
“O’Keeffe outblazes”: Edmund Wilson, “The Stieglitz Exhibition,” The New Republic, March 18, 1925, pp. 97–98; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 227–29.
“a whopper”: RSS to PS, March 3, 1925, CCP.
“in a halo of words”: Helen Appleton Read, “News and Views on Current Art: Alfred Stieglitz Presents Seven Americans,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 15, 1925; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 233.
“exquisite in texture and color”: Margaret Breuning, “Seven Americans,” New York Evening Post, March 14, 1924; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 225.
“more obvious in their truth”: Elizabeth Luther Cary, “Art: Exhibitions of the Week; Seven Americans,” New York Times, March 15, 1925; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 230.
“expert”: Helen Appleton Read, “New York: Seven Americans,” The Arts 7 (April 1925): 229–31; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 237–38.
“Bellini”: Henry McBride, “The Stieglitz Group at Anderson’s,” New York Sun, March 14, 1925; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 225–27.
“You are good!”: GOK to Henry McBride [March 1925], Cowart and Hamilton, p. 179.
“peculiarly feminine”: Edmund Wilson, “The Stieglitz Exhibition,” The New Republic, March 18, 1925, pp. 97–98; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 227–29.
“I have always been very annoyed”: GOK in Mary Lynn Kotz, “O’Keeffe at 90,” Artnews, December 1977, p. 44.
“A woman who has lived”: GOK to MDL [1925?], Cowart and Hamilton, p. 180.
“I was pleased to see her”: FS to ES, December 9, 1922, Stettheimer Papers, YCAL.
“He photographs/She is naked”: Ettie Stettheimer, Crystal Flowers (New York: Banyon Press, 1949), p. 53.
“roundness & texture & line”: AS to RSS, March 4, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“satisfactory for all concerned”: AS to RSS, June 14,
1925, ASA/YCAL.
“The three months”: RSS to AS, June 16, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“ready for trouble”: RSS to AS, June 29, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“You’ll enjoy it there”: AS to RSS, July 11, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“au naturel”: RSS to AS, August 1, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“At first the country”: RSS to AS, August 14, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“ardent”: Henry McBride, “Gaston Lachaise,” Sun, February 17, 1918; reprinted in McBride, The Flow of Art, pp. 150–51.
“The breasts, the abdomen”: Hilton Kramer, The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise (New York: Eakins Press, 1967), p. 13.
“You should see Mme L.”: RSS to AS, August 1, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“in a clear forceful”: Lachaise, in MSS. 4 (December 1922): 9.
“a synthesis”: PS, “Lachaise,” in Kreymborg, Mumford, and Rosenfeld, eds., The Second American Caravan (New York: Macaulay, 1928), pp. 651–52.
“a head of Mr Strand”: RSS to AS, August 24, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“snapping & sporting”: AS to RSS, August 26, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“ten fine prints”: PS to AS, September 28, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“The weeks in Maine”: PS to AS, September 4, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“How do you do”: Lowe, p. 225.
“We had two yowling brats”: GOK to Ettie Stettheimer, August 6–25, Stettheimer Papers, YCAL; quoted in Cowart and Hamilton, p. 181.
“The Hill would have been”: AS to RSS, July 22 and July 30, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“gynecologically PERFECT”: RSS to AS, September 12, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“I thought surely”: AS to RSS, September 14, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“You did do rather”: RSS to AS, September 23, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“to take you in hand”: AS to RSS, October 13, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“the treeness of a tree”: Toomer, “The Hill,” in America & Alfred Stieglitz, ed. Frank et al., p. 298.
“why we value him”: ibid.
“a painting I made”: GOK to Toomer, February 8, 1934, Cowart and Hamilton, p. 218.
“passed into the world”: GOK, Georgia O’Keeffe, unpaginated. Sarah Greenough discusses these works in “ ‘Slipping into the World as Abstractions’: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Abstract Portraits,” at https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video/audio/greenough-okeeffe.html.
“I have a few”: AS to RSS, November 9, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“I like an empty wall”: GOK to AP, Giboire, ed., p. 294.
“We feel as if”: AS to Sherwood Anderson, December 9, 1925, Greenough and Hamilton, p. 214.
“the old grind”: RSS to AS, September 12, 1925, ASA/YCAL.
“Every time you go away”: RSS to PS, November 3, 1925, CCP.
CHAPTER 12: TURNING THE PAGE
“a Direct Point of Contact”: AS, “The Intimate Gallery” announcement, Arthur Dove exhibition, January 11 to February 6, 1926.
“There is no artiness”: AS to SA, December 9, 1925, Greenough and Hamilton, p. 214.
“One can’t”: GOK, Blanche C. Matthias, “GOK and the Intimate Gallery,” Chicago Evening Post, March 2, 1926; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 249.
“They would all sit”: GOK, quoted in Edith Evans Asbury, “Silent Desert Still Charms Georgia O’Keeffe, Near 81,” New York Times, November 2, 1968.
“When I wanted to paint”: GOK, quoted in Mary Lynn Kotz, “Georgia O’Keeffe at 90,” Artnews, December 1977; Robinson, p. 293.
“No one ever objected”: GOK, Georgia O’Keeffe, unpaginated.
“it is her interest”: Frances O’Brien, “Americans We Like: Georgia O’Keeffe,” The Nation (October 12, 1927), pp. 361–62; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 272.
“profoundly feminine”: Matthias, “Georgia O’Keeffe and the Intimate Gallery”; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 246–50.
“Psychiatrists have been sending”: Murdock Pemberton, “The Art Galleries: The Great Wall of Manhatta; or, New York for Live New Yorkers,” The New Yorker, March 13, 1926, pp. 36–37; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 251.
“I like her stuff”: Henry McBride, “Modern Art,” The Dial, May 1926, pp. 436–37; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 253.
“for I really feel”: RSS to PS, March 18, 1926, CCP.
“the processes by which”: Richard Walsh, The Making of Buffalo Bill (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928), p. v.
“la gripette”: RSS to AS, April 2, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“I have been thinking”: ibid.
“Stay away as long”: AS to RSS, July 13, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“a distant and disagreeable”: PS to AS, July 13, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“a good-bad time”: PS to AS, September 20, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“Paul made the tree prints”: RSS to AS, May 25, 1927, ASA/YCAL. The portrait of Beck against the tree is dated 1932 at CCP and 1933 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art but may have been taken earlier. In it, her hair has not yet turned white, which it would by 1929.
“Your babies haven’t been loafing”: PS to AS, September 20, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“I have never seen more”: ibid.
“casual, amusing”: RSS to AS, September 15, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“magnificent gift”: Toomer, quoted in Kernan and Eldridge, p. 147.
“It’s really very beautiful”: RSS to AS, September 15, 1926, ASA/YCAL
“My taste for adventure”: RSS to AS, October 3, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“a sort of hash”: AS to RSS, September 27, 1926, ASA/YCAL.
“I was like a mad woman”: GOK to AS, August 22, 1926, MFO, p. 364.
“I have been letting”: GOK to AS, September 11, 1926, MFO, p. 372.
this new series of oils: On this series, see Robinson’s eloquent discussion, pp. 297–98.
“mark[ed] the turning”: GOK to AS, September 21, 1926, MFO, p. 375.
“It must be that”: GOK to AS, September 22, 1926, MFO, p. 377.
“shapes together”: GOK, Georgia O’Keeffe, unpaginated.
“I entered a room”: Frances O’Brien, “Americans We Like: Georgia O’Keeffe,” The Nation, October 12, 1927; Drohojowska-Philp, p. 259.
“Any true relationship”: AS, quoted in Seligmann, p. 84.
CHAPTER 13: THE END OF SOMETHING
“Much is happening”: GOK to Waldo Frank, January 10, 1927, Cowart and Hamilton, p. 185.
“In this our period” and “In her canvases”: Georgia O’Keeffe: Paintings, 1926 (New York: Intimate Gallery, 1927); reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 257–58.
“There are few”: Helen Appleton Read, “Georgia O’Keefe [sic],” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 16, 1927; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 261.
“ladies’ day”: Henry McBride, “Modern Art,” The Dial, March 1927, pp. 262–63; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 267.
“to have the emotional faucet”: GOK to McBride, 1927, Drohojowska-Philp, p. 274.
“Ever since Paul”: RSS to AS, May 25, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“Yes, several of those”: AS to RSS, May 30, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“You charge me”: AS to GOK, April 15, 1927, MFO, p. 379.
“Maybe the 23 years”: AS to GOK, April 15, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“Myself? No”: RSS to AS, June 21, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“Yes, you are there”: AS to RSS, June 22, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“when I would like”: RSS to PS, June 26, 1927, CCP.
“fat—prosperous”: ibid.
“smiled with ineffable tenderness”: RSS to AS, September 9, 1927, ASA/Y
CAL.
“one has a mania”: GOK to AP, 1927[?], Giboire, ed., p. 275.
“It caused an uproar”: GOK, quoted in Seiberling, “Horizons.”
“there seems to be”: AS to RSS, September 10, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“The wires of mutual thought”: RSS to AS, September 15, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“I have missed the moment”: ibid.
“Why can’t we”: RSS to PS, August 26, 1927, CCP.
“We are well”: RSS to AS, October 7, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“They sang and vibrated”: RSS to AS, October 23, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“You know that my interest”: AS to PS, December 18, 1927, CCP.
“reactionary political attitudes”: Norman, Encounters, p. 47.
“Is your sexual relationship”: ibid., p. 56.
“If you do want any help”: ibid., p. 57.
“to pursue her way”: McBride, “Georgia O’Keefe’s [sic] Recent Work,” New York Sun, January 14, 1928; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 274.
“What you have done”: GOK to McBride, May 11, 1928, Robinson, p. 304. O’Keeffe enclosed a check for $200 in the mistaken assumption that McBride needed financial aid. He returned the check, having understood her gesture as an innocent effort to help.
“Other causes”: Norman, Encounters, p. 62.
“I never did like her”: Tomkins GOK notes, MOMA.
“He glared at me”: Norman, Encounters, pp. 54–56.
“neatifying”: AS to RSS, March 27, 1928, ASA/YCAL.
“All it needs”: AS to RSS, April 16, 1927, ASA/YCAL.
“rather individual” to “rhythms”: New York Tribune [c. April 1928] and other undated, anonymous articles, Taos Historic Museums; cited in Campbell, pp. 180, 181.
“This designer, who has”: Dorothy Teall, “Le Roi Est Mort,” The Survey 67 (1932): 271–72.
“Artist Who Paints”: New York Times, April 16, 1928; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 284–85.
“Not a rouged”: B. Vladimir Berman, “She Painted the Lily and Got $25,000 and Fame for Doing It!,” New York Graphic, May 12, 1928.
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