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 Based on previously unpublished correspondence between O'Keeffe and distinguished conservator Caroline Keck, this catalogue from the Mississippi Museum of Art presents entirely new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.
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"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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Rene Paul Barilleaux is Curator of Art after 1945 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and former Director for Programs at the Mississippi Museum of Art. In 2003, he curated Passionate Observer: Photographs by Eudora Welty at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
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Collaborations between an artist and a conservator,
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First book ever to publish the correspondence between a known artist (O'Keeffe) and conservator (Caroline K. Keck). Very useful for the reader to learn how the work of a conservator can affect the look and long-term preservation of paintings.
The book also contains important information on O'Keeffe's materials and techniques and the many small sample cards of color she prepared in order to make the choices for the palettes of her paintings.
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Very pleased with the price of the catalog.
I received it in a short time frame. My only negative is that one corner of the book was creased and I am persnickety about my books.
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