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Georgia O'Keeffe : "my New Yorks" / edited by Sarah Kelly Oehler and Annelise K. Madsen ; with essays by Adrienne Brown, Annelise K. Madsen, Sarah Kelly Oehler, Sascha T. Scott, and Lisa Volpe.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buildings in art--Exhibitions.
- Buildings in art.
- Cities and towns in art--Exhibitions.
- Cities and towns in art.
- Skyscrapers in art--Exhibitions.
- Skyscrapers in art.
- New York (N.Y.)--In art--Exhibitions.
- New York (N.Y.).
- O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986--Themes, motives--Exhibitions.
- O'Keeffe, Georgia.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- "My New Yorks"
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, IL : The Art Institute of Chicago, [2024]
- Summary:
- "In 1924 Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) moved to the Shelton Hotel in New York with her husband, the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz. The Shelton was Manhattan's earliest residential skyscraper, and its dizzying heights inspired O'Keeffe to create a powerful series of approximately twenty-five paintings and numerous drawings over a span of about five years. She called these 'my New Yorks,' and they mainly consist of two types of compositions: sprawling observations looking down onto the city and humbling views directed up at the newly built urban monoliths. Exploring the New York skyline, O'Keeffe resisted the approach of contemporaries such as Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand-- who celebrated New York as a streamlined, impersonal series of geometric canyons-- and instead portrayed it as an amalgamation of the organic and the inorganic, the natural and the constructed.... Reshaping our understanding of this pivotal yet underappreciated period in O'Keeffe's storied career, this publication situates the New York paintings within the artist's larger oeuvre and examines how these works reflect narratives of built environments, racialized space, and the politics of place"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Turning the World Over : Georgia O'Keeffe Paints Manhattan / Sarah Kelly Oehler
- Tall Buildings and Tiny Shells : Georgia O'Keeffe, New York, and the Scale of Things / Annelise K. Madsen
- O'Keeffe and the "City of Amnesia" : US Landscape Painting and Indigenous Erasure / Sascha T. Scott
- Impossible Ideas : Seeing the City with Georgia O'Keeffe and Aaron Douglas / Adrienne Brown
- (Re)framing the View / Lisa Volpe.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and online resource, viewed 19 August 2025.
- "Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by the Art Institute of Chicago [in Chicago, Illinois], on view from June 2 to September 22, 2024, and at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta [Georgia], October 25, 2024, to February 16, 2025"--Title page verso.
- Includes selected bibliographical references (pages 204-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300284607
- OCLC:
- 1533703760
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