Selected Letters of Georgia O\'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933
Yale University Press
July 2011
On Sale: June 21, 2011
Featuring: Alfred Stieglitz; Georgia O\'Keefe
818 pages ISBN: 0300166303 EAN: 9780300166309 Paperback Add to Wish List
There are few couples in the history of 20th-century
American art and culture more prominent than Georgia
O'Keeffe (1887–1986) and Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946).
Between 1915, when they first began to write to each other,
and 1946, when Stieglitz died, O'Keeffe and Stieglitz
exchanged over 5,000 letters (more than 25,000 pages) that
describe their daily lives in profoundly rich detail. This
long-awaited volume features some 650 letters, carefully
selected and annotated by leading photography scholar Sarah
Greenough.
In O'Keeffe's sparse and vibrant style and Stieglitz's
fervent and lyrical manner, the letters describe how they
met and fell in love in the 1910s; how they carved out a
life together in the 1920s; how their relationship nearly
collapsed during the early years of the Depression; and how
it was reconstructed in the late 1930s and early 1940s. At
the same time, the correspondence reveals the creative
evolution of their art and ideas; their friendships with
many of the most influential figures in early American
modernism (Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley,
John Marin, and Paul Strand, to name a few); and their
relationships and conversations with an exceptionally wide
range of key figures in American and European art and
culture (including Duncan Phillips, Diego Rivera, D. H.
Lawrence, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Marcel Duchamp).
Furthermore, their often poignant prose reveals insights
into the impact of larger cultural forces—World Wars I and
II; the booming economy of the 1920s; and the Depression of
the 1930s—on two articulate, creative individuals.
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