Essays: Jack Cowart, Juan Hamilton

Letters selected by: Sarah Greenough

Publisher/Date: National Gallery of Art in association with Bullfinch Press/Little, Brown & Co. 1989; Published in conjunction with the Exhibition in 1987-89.

ISBN: 0821217674

Format/Condition: Gently used oversized softcover book is in very good condition: very light edgewear to covers with a few small indentations. Pages are clean and tight. Spine is not creased. 307 pages, index, bibliography. Measures approx 91/2 x 12 ½ inches. Profusely illustrated in color.

Description: From the back cover:
The year 1987 marked the centennial of the birth of Georgia O’Keeffe, one of our nation’s best loved and most inventive artists. In celebration of this even-and of her notable contribution to American art-the National Gallery of Art mounted the first major exhibition of O’Keeffe’s work in nearly two decades.

Published in conjunction with the exhibit, this handsome volume features 120 of O’Keeffe’s best abstractions, flower paintings, still lives, cityscapes and landscapes and figure studies, all newly photographed and exquisitely reproduced in color. Many of the paintings here are rarely seen works for the O’Keeffe estate and others are important pieces that reside in public and private collections in the United States and abroad.

The book features 120 letters-most of them never before published-written by O’Keeffe to colleagues, critics, and friends, which reveal a poetry of language that parallels the artist’s graphic eloquence.

Perceptive essays by Jack Cowart of the National Gallery of Art, and Juan Hamilton, O’Keeffe’s assistant and companion from 1973 until her death in 1986, a chronology, and an exhibition history make this the indispensable reference on Georgia O’Keeffe, artist and individual.