Georgia O'Keeffe : visions of Hawaiʻi
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Georgia O'Keeffe : visions of Hawaiʻi
New York Botanical Garden , DelMonico Books・Prestel, 2018
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Exhibition catalogue
Published on the occasion of an exhibition, held at New York Botanical Garden, May 19-Oct. 28, 2018, and at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Dec. 1, 2018-Feb. 24, 2019
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-142)
Contents of Works
- Georgia O'Keeffe in Hawaiʻi / Theresa Papanikolas
- Snapshots of Hawaiʻi : sketches and photographs / Joanna L. Groarke
- Hawai'i in the American popular imagination in the 1930s / Desoto Brown
- Placing O'Keeffe / Alicia Inez Guzman
- Losing Paradise / Otto Degener and Isa Degener, Introduction by Brian M. Boom
- Aloha ʻĀina : Hawaiian ecology and culture / Samuel M. ʻOhukaniʻōhiʻa Gon III
- Catalog / Joanna L. Groarke and Theresa Papanikolas
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Description
In 1939, Georgia O'Keeffe, who at 51 was among the most famous artists in the United States, accepted a commission from the Hawaiian Pineapple Company to produce two paintings for advertising campaigns. Her nine-week trip to Hawai'i resulted in more than 20 paintings, which reveal that O'Keeffe-most commonly associated with the stark deserts of New Mexico- was profoundly inspired by what she saw and experienced on the lush, tropical Hawaiian Islands. The exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i, and this accompanying volume, explores this little-known chapter in the artist's career. Glowing with color and feeling, these paintings demonstrate O'Keeffe's unique ability to make any place she happened to be in her own, and this groundbreaking volume offers a unique perspective by foregrounding the ecological complexity of the Hawaiian Islands-one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth- that is hidden behind O'Keeffe's depictions.
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