Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years - Softcover

Much has been written about Georgia O'Keeffe in recent years, but much remains to be said. In this sympathetic biography, Dr Peters aims cast a clear new light on how a fiercely independent young art student became the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Covering the period 1915-1930, with flashbacks to O'Keeffe's studies in New York and Chicago, the book set out to capture the intensity and intelligence of O'Keeffe's search for her own unique expression. Dr Peters also carefully elucidates Stieglitz's successful efforts to promote O'Keeffe's career and argues that his influence on her work was counterbalanced by hers on his own. The attention recently focused on the dramas of O"Keeffe's life has obscured the subtle complexity of her paintings. Dr Peters - through the sensitivity of her written text and her selection of images - tries to give us not only a greatly expanded understanding of O'Keeffe, but also an enlightening sense of the time and place in which she worked.