Georgia O’Keeffe

An intimate portrait of America's most iconic modernist by noted O'Keeffe scholar Lisa Mintz Messinger, former associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This 2001 Thames & Hudson edition features 121 illustrations, 68 in full color, revealing O'Keeffe's complete oeuvre from her early abstractions to her desert landscapes.

What sets this volume apart is Messinger's incorporation of the artist's newly published catalogue raisonne and her exploration of O'Keeffe's relationships with Alfred Stieglitz, Arthur Dove, and other modernists. The paperback traces how a woman who insisted that "colors & line & shapes" spoke louder than words created a visual language that synthesized European abstraction with American pictorialism, remaining fiercely independent for seven decades while her flowers, bones, and New Mexico vistas became signature images of 20th-century art.