Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has become one of America's best-known artists. This book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, centers on O'Keeffe's efforts to ensure proper conservation of the fragile surfaces of her paintings of bones, flowers, and landscapes. Based on previously unpublished correspondence between O'Keeffe and distinguished conservator Caroline Keck, this catalogue from the Mississippi Museum of Art presents entirely new information about the relationship between O'Keeffe's aesthetic vision and her distinctive handling of paint and pastel. O'Keeffe's use of color has long been regarded as a source of the great emotional power that animates her abstract renderings of natural forms. But, little was known about her techniques, because she surrounded her studio practices with a wall of secrecy. Her correspondence with Keck reveals that she was surprisingly traditional, sometimes making her own color chips and pastel sticks and even at times grinding her own pigments. The essays in "Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation" consider the artist's enduring love of the very substance of color. Through close analysis of paintings and pastels with a continuous history of conservation, the essays document O'Keeffe's and Keck's painstaking efforts to restore damaged art to its original state. The discussion and accompanying illustrations will give readers an expanded understanding of the subtle beauty and diversity of O'Keeffe's painting methods.

ISBN 1887422110   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781887422116 (What's this?)   Pages 168 Publisher Mississippi Museum of Art   Volumes 1 Imprint Mississippi Museum of Art   Weight (grammes) 1252 Format Hardback   Height (mm) 305 Publication date 15 Jan 2006   Width (mm) 229 Library of Congress 2005050543   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 759.13   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly

		About Annie Laurie Swaim Hearin		6
		Georgia O'Keeffe : color and conservation by Sarah Whitaker Peters		14
		Painter and conservator : a collaboration by Dale Kronkright		26
		Pastel, Georgia O'Keeffe, and conservation by Judith C. Walsh		36
		The letters		42
		Color and conservation : works in the exhibition		122
		Color and conservation : exhibition checklist		166

"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not."

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