Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe was my pick. The biography is like reading a textbook; yet personal anecdotes by Georgia keep it intriguing. The print is a bit dark but some of my friends liked that when I was sharing info. I discovered Georgia O'keeffe when I was growing up in San Francisco and was drawn to her vibrant colors and soft flowery, feminine forms. A Painter's Kitchen: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe Joyce Carol Oates Fascinating...filled with riches...what a personality emerges from these pages!To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Wonder how this author knew her, as she shunned so many people. die autorin ist sehr vertraut mit dem leben von georgia o`keeffe und schreibt lebendig, informativ und detailreich.

I knew a lot about O'Keefe but there was so much more in this book. Please try again.

She lived a long and (very) active life and this book takes you everwhere in her 90+ years. I've read a few G O'K bios.
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I had to forget everything I knew about Georgia I learned from this book to be able to enjoy the program at all. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe Having been to her museum in Santa Fe, and then her home in Abiqui, and then at Ghost Ranch....The book brings this all together. Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2018 Portrait of An Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by Laurie Lisle

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A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. I hope you enjoy reading about this genius as much as I did. Bought this to read before trip to Santa Fe since it was the most comprehensive biography I could find. Highly recommend it.

Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) (Gifts for Artists, Inspirational Books, Gifts for Creatives) You get a sense of the struggle it took her to find her unique painting voice.

Especially her reaction to the WWI.

The bio reveals the artist from birth in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1887 to her death in Taos, New Mexico in 1986. Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe Book seems based on information gathered by many others who knew Georgia.

It would be nice to have an updated version of this book with small color reproductions of the artworks mentioned as you're reading so you don't have to pause and look them up on the internet.

While the bio is exhaustive, she paints her in a flattering fashion compared to others who have documented here sexual prowess and free spirited life style. I found the black and white photos of O'Keeffe, many of which were taken by her mentor and husband Stieglitz, often as revealing as Laurie Lisle's words. The work uses techniques that Joyce developed more fully in Ulysses Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe. But I got a better sense of her position in the art world, as well as the American culture in that period.