Full Bloom
Page 74
York, Michael, 530
York, Pat, 530–31
Yosemite National Park, 377, 449
Young, Anita Natalia O’Keeffe, 82, 96, 231, 368, 456, 495, 545
—childhood of, 19, 23, 24, 28, 31, 32, 43, 76
—homes of, 312, 314–15, 344, 367, 502, 541–42
—marriage of, 113, 126, 466, 467, 502
—O’Keeffe’s travels with, 478–79
—paintings bought by, 284, 291, 312, 382, 541–42
—wealth of, 312, 457, 466, 467, 470, 588n
Young, Eleanor Jane, 312, 466
Young, Robert L., 113, 312, 367, 442, 466
Young, Susan, 34, 36, 74, 159
Zigrosser, Carl, 348, 407
Zoeller (rancher), 151–52, 566n
Zoler, Emil, 90, 152, 306, 307, 348
Zorach, Margarite, 205
Additional Praise for
FULL BLOOM
“This book is . . . to remain the definitive life of O’Keeffe for as long as the public continues to be fascinated by her story.”
—Hilton Kramer, Los Angeles Times
“Drohojowska-Philp has rescued O’Keeffe’s reputation from the Mother Teresa treatment under which it has suffered for decades, giving us back the flawed human being underneath the icon.”
—RM Vaughan, National Post
“Hunter Drohojowska-Philp has attained access to journals that expose the sadness that lay . . . at the heart of one of the art world’s most celebrated love affairs.”
—Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times (London)
“Drohojowska-Philp’s argument is particularly convincing because of her numerous references to the genesis of specific paintings. It’s even more convincing because of the way that this big, scrupulously researched book uses letters, interviews, and documents to show the evolution of O’Keeffe’s artistic sensibility.”
—Victor Swoboda, Montreal Gazette
“The author had access to materials, including letters, interviews, and complete catalog of the works, to which others did not. She has written an extremely rich narrative . . . in this frank account . . . Georgia O’Keeffe emerges, despite the availability of so much information, intact and more compelling than ever.”
—B. Waterman-Peters, Choice
“Drohojowska-Philp is an expert guide to O’Keeffe’s world. . . . This biography, balanced, and, in places, effectively understated, chronicles O’Keeffe’s pursuit of clarity and decisiveness. Telling anecdotes stud the tale throughout.”
—Frances Spalding, Sunday Times (London)
“O’Keeffe’s art—sources, ideas, technique—has finally begun receiving the scholarly attention it was largely denied in her liefetime. Drohojowska-Philp makes much of the artist’s debt to Art Nouveau, Japanese prints, Paul Strand and Surrealism, among other influences.”
—Adele Freedman, The Globe and Mail
“I found Full Bloom absolutely fascinating. The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mind and heart of a revolutionary artist.”
—Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying
“Drohojowska-Philp’s brimming biography of Georgia O’Keeffe is fresh and clear, supple and layered, offering much that is new but, most welcome of all, a tone that is wise and large-hearted. By the end of her increasingly engrossing narrative, we feel we truly have been given, finally, the woman on paper.”
—Lawrence Weschler, author of Vermeer in Bosnia and Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder
“I can’t imagine a biographical sensibility better suited to dealing with the incongruities of Georgia O’Keeffe’s life and career than Hunter Drohojowska-Philp’s. She has a fine feel for the improvisational trial and error of O’Keeffe’s self-invention, for the right decisions made for the wrong reasons, and vice versa. An artist’s art and life are never of a piece, but Drohojowska-Philp makes surprising sense out of the finely spun truths and fictions through which O’Keeffe created the illusion that her art and life were, in fact, one.”
—Dave Hickey, author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter.
Full bloom : the art and life of Georgia O’Keeffe / by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-393-05853-0 (hardcover)
1. O’Keeffe, Georgia, 1887–1986. 2. Painters—United States—Biography. I. Title.
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