Table of Contents

Director's Foreward 7 Georgia O'Keefe and New Mexica: A Sense of Place by Barbara Buhler Lynes 11 A Sense of Place I: Toas, Alcalde, Tierra Azul, Ghost Ranch, Black Place 59 A Call to Place by Lesley Poling-Kempes 77 A Sense of Place II: Chama River, White Place, Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch 89 On Her Conquest of Space by Frederick W. Turner 109 Chronology 125 Checklist 128 Suggestions for Further Reading 134 Acknowledgments 136 Index 138 Photography Credits 143

Promotional Information

This book will significantly contribute to our understanding of this phase of O'Keeffe's life and accomplishments. Lynes' essay, in particular, opens up a new aspect of the artist's work. She revisits the landscapes that inspired much of O'Keeffe's artistry, comparing each carefully with its corresponding painted rendition. She discovers how the artist walks the fine line between specific observation and playful abstraction. Her careful consideration of each pictorial structure makes us see the lengths to which O'Keeffe went in order to make these landscape forms speak to her. -- Kathleen Pyne, University of Notre Dame

About the Author

Barbara Buhler Lynes is Curator, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, and The Emily Fisher Landau Director, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonn and numerous other books about O'Keeffe. Lesley Poling-Kempes is an independent writer and historian currently at work on a book devoted to Ghost Ranch, 1900-1980. Frederick W. Turner, an independent writer, is the author of Spirit of Place: The Making of an American Literary Landscape.

Reviews

Winner of the 2005 Book Award in Fine Art, Independent Publisher Book Awards "The illustrations are beautifully reproduced, and the book's three essays are intelligent, carefully researched, and elegantly presented."--Roxana Robinson, The Wilson Quarterly "In her meticulous account, Lesley Poling-Kempes discusses the geophysical origins of this land of 'extremes and contrast,' analyzing the layered stone formations and matching them up with O'Keeffe's keen observations of red shales, sandshales and silt stones created 200 million years ago... Frederich W. Turner steps more intimately into O'Keeffe's preserve, discussing her eccentricities, her remoteness from others sharing the land ... and the mythology she did much to create... Once installed in New Mexico, though, she became an authentic new conquistador, he concludes, and entered her true final domain."--Dore Ashton, Times Literary Supplement