Volume 24, Number 5 · March 31, 1977
O'Keeffe's Trail
By Barbara Rose
Georgia O'Keeffe
by Georgia O'Keeffe
Viking, 224 pp., $75.00
Georgia O'Keeffe is one of America's most popular painters, yet very little of interest has been written about her. As if to fill this void, O'Keeffe has published a book about her work that suggests why so many writers who have made the long trek to Abiquiu, the remote village where she lives in New Mexico, have returned with empty notebooks and blank cassettes. As she declares with her by now familiar terseness, 'Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.' Such resistance has bolstered the myth that O'Keeffe is an enigma; but it has also discouraged any serious study that would look deeply into O'Keeffe's art, since it is difficult to write art history without at least some sense of an artist's life.
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