By Georgia O'Keeffe
Located in New York, NY
Georgia O'Keeffe, 'One Hundred Flowers', coffee table or library book, 1987. American Modernism; a very beautiful book of enlarged artwork of flowers by the amazing American painter, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986.)
"A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower--the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower--lean forward to smell it--maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking--or give it to someone to please them. Still in a way--nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small--we haven't time-and to see take time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is mall."
"So I said to myself--I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it-- Georgia O'Keeffe, "About Myself," 1939.
Image #9: Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George, NY, 1918. Photographed by Alfred Stieglitz (her future husband.)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Published: First Edition, 1987
Printed and bound: Japan
Binding: Perfect-bound, hard-cover, with four color process 'dust' jacket
Front Jacket Cover: 'Jimson Weed...
Category
20th Century American Organic Modern Georgia O'Keeffe Furniture