Hints and tips:
...When it comes to throwing a dinner party, the 19th-century writer Florence Hartley suggests in her etiquette and politeness manual that a hostess should be dressed simply, wearing “the richest fabrics, exquisitely...
...Curiously, Georgia O’Keeffe declined to be included, not wanting to be classed as a “woman artist”....
...Astonishingly, the Met did not have to borrow a thing: in 1949, Stieglitz’s widow, Georgia O’Keeffe, donated hundreds of works from his estate....
...My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, edited by Sarah Greenough, Yale, RRP£28, 832 pages She is sparse and vibrant, he is fervent and lyrical; American art history’s...
...Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Wave, Night”, for example, is all liquid splendour in its grey-white moonlit effects, but more severely abstracted, less subversively erotic than her characteristic flower and landscape...
...Updike notes 20th-century successors to these wide vistas - Marsden Hartley’s Maine mountains, Georgia O’Keeffe’s mesas, Arthur Dove’s suns - but finally chooses Barnett Newman’s wash of red sliced by white...
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