Georgia O Keeffe s Hawai i #pdf by Patricia Jennings

Koa Books | ISBN:0982165641 | File Type: PDF, 113 pages | File size: 60.Mb | Nov. 1st, 2011
Artists Architects Photographers Biographies Autobiographies: Georgia O Keeffe is a legend of 20th century American art Her life and work well documented in her lifetime and since have taken on mythic proportions Hawai i is also mythic in our national psyche a paradisiacal place of healing and renewal In 1938 the Dole ineapple Co invited Georgia O Keeffe to come to Hawai i to produce two paintings for their national advertising campaign Like other great artists of her day including Kuniyoshi Sheets and Noguchi she accepted and in the spring of 1939 spent nine weeks the Hawaiian Islands On Maui where she was hosted by 12 year old atricia Jennings the daughter of the Hana sugar plantation manager she had an encounter that wod affect both women for the rest of their lives atricia was an isolated introvert homeschooled and raised by a highly critical mother When Georgia O Keeffe arrived in Hawai i she was in the throes of marital duress and health challenges Georgia and atricia s 10 days together were deeply bonding and profoundly healing atricia was nurtured by a mother figure and Georgia recovered emotionally and physically and produced 20 little known yet magnificent works of art In Georgia O Keeffe s Hawai i atricia Jennings Morriss tells the story of their encounter offering glimpses and a fresh look at the process of the great artist through the eyes of a pre war teen in territorial Hawai i O Keeffe s 20 lush paintings of Island flora and landscapes are reproduced together here for the first time Reflecting on her time on Maui O Keeffe wrote I enjoy this drifting off into space on an island Years later she added it was one of the best things I have done In 1940 O Keeffe s Hawai i paintings were exhibited at a An American lace in New York to critical acclaim yet in the years since they ve only been displayed all together once In the introduction to Georgia O Keeffe s Hawaii art historian Jennifer Saville asserts that O Keeffe s nine week sojourn in the Hawaiian Islands helped shape her career bridging themes examined earlier to later subjects This heartwarming informative read fills a gap in our knowledge about the life and work of one of this great artist With 20 paintings in fl color and a host of period photos