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Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico
"Georgia O'Keeffe and New Mexico is the first book to analyze the artist's famous depictions of these Southwestern landscapes." "The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It reproduces the exhibition's fifty paintings and includes photographs of the sites that inspired them as well as diagrams of the region's distinctive geology. The book examines the magnificence of O'Keeffe's work through essays by three authors. Barbara Buhler Lynes, Curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and organizer of the exhibition, discusses the relationship of the artist's paintings to the places that inspired her. Lesley Poling-Kempes furnishes a chronicle of O'Keeffe's years in the region as well as an explanation of the geological forces that produced the intense colors and dramatic shapes of the landscapes O'Keeffe painted. Frederick W....
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