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Georgia O'Keeffe's wartime Texas letters /

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This work focuses on O'Keeffe's words rather than her images. Von Lintel aims to allow the artist's voice to 'emerge as a powerful witness of her own life, but also of western America in a pivotal moment of its development.' The result is an important new examination of one...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986 (Author)
Other Authors: Von Lintel, Amy (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2020].
Edition:First edition.
Series:American Wests.
Subjects:
O'Keeffe, Georgia, > 1887-1986 > Travel > Texas.
O'Keeffe, Georgia, > 1887-1986 > Correspondence.
Artists > United States > Correspondence.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American.
Texas > Description and travel > Sources.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Home on the Home Front
  • 1916: Finding the "Wonderful Plains" of Texas
  • Winter to Spring, 1917: Moments before the War and "Why Men Fight"
  • War Declared: "What's the use of art
  • if there is war"
  • Fall 1917: "We are short about a hundred
  • war and bad crops"
  • Winter 1917-1918: "It's the flag and I see it flying"
  • San Antonio and Waring: "Country life . . . is wonderful."