Full Bloom
Georgia O`Keefe (1887-1986) was one of the most successful American artists of the twentieth century: her arresting paintings of enormous, intimately rendered flowers, desert landscapes, and stark white cow skulls are seminal works of modern art. But behind O`Keefe`s bold work and celebrity was a woman misunderstood by even her most ardent admirers. This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth. When she was still unknown as an artist, O`Keefe married Alfred Stieglitz, twenty-three years her senior and well established as a pioneer in art photography. The relationship was physically and intellectually passionate, but Stieglitz was a man of the world. Through the author`s access to previously unavailable materials--including interviews with Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz`s longtime paramour, we are offered new knowledge about O`Keefe`s defining relationships and the effect of her husband`s infidelity. Driven to a nervous breakdown by the Norman affair, O`Keefe relocated and redefined herself in New Mexico, where she created her unforgettable signature paintings.

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