Georgia O'Keeffe - Hatje Cantz

An angled, top-down shot of a square hardcover book on a white background. The cover features a deep blue watercolor design with white, spaced-out text reading GEORGIA O'KEEFFE, SEHEN BRAUCHT ZEIT. The spine is visible on the left.

The back cover of an off-white book, viewed at a slight angle on a white surface. On the right, there is a large, abstract charcoal drawing with soft, swirling, organic forms in shades of gray and black. To the left of the illustration are two paragraphs of text in German. A barcode, ISBN, and publisher's website are printed in the bottom-right corner.

An overhead shot of an open book on a white surface. The left page is a full-color abstract watercolor painting of a puffy, white and yellow cloud-like form against a dark blue sky. The right page contains text in German about the artist Georgia O'Keeffe's work on paper.

A studio shot of an open art book displaying two abstract charcoal drawings on facing pages. The left page shows a dark, symmetrical composition with a tall, thin shape rising from a wing-like base. The right page features a lighter, more fluid drawing of swirling, ribbon-like forms in shades of grey.

An open art book lying flat, showing a two-page spread with pages numbered 100 and 101. Each page features two abstract watercolor paintings with bold, flowing shapes in red, blue, and yellow, resembling sunsets or celestial orbs over a dark horizon. Small captions are printed below the artworks.

A two-page spread from an art book displaying four self-portraits of the artist Beauford Delaney from 1943. Three grayscale charcoal drawings are on the left, and a color pastel portrait is on the far right, all showing a frontal view of the Black artist's face.

A table of contents for a book, written in German. The page lists chapter titles on the left and corresponding page numbers on the right. Sections include Vorwort, Dank, several titled chapters by authors such as Samantha Friedman and Laura Neufeld, and concluding sections like Werkliste and Ausgewählte Bibliografie. The text is in a clean, sans-serif font against a plain white background.

A two-page spread from an art book. On the left is a large, abstract charcoal drawing in shades of black and grey, depicting a swirling, vortex-like form with soft, textured lines. The right-hand page features German text with the large headline ICH HABE DIESE ZEICHNUNG MEHRERE MALE GEMACHT.

An open art book spread across two pages. On the left, page 20 features a large, abstract charcoal drawing by Georgia O'Keeffe in shades of grey. On the right, page 21 shows a grid of six black and white photographic portraits of O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz, ranging from clothed to partially nude. Both pages have captions in German underneath the artwork.

A two-page spread from an art book, displaying two contrasting abstract artworks from 1915. On the left is a vertical, monochrome charcoal drawing of a stylized, skeletal tree on a hill. On the right is a horizontal, vibrant pastel piece with swirling, organic forms in bright yellow, orange, green, and blue.

An open art book displaying a two-page spread, pages 62 and 63, with text in German. The left page features an abstract watercolor of a mountain by Paul Cézanne, and the right page shows a more colorful watercolor of a snowy mountain landscape by John Marin.

A two-page spread from an art book showing two related abstract works. On the left is a colorful painting with red, rounded shapes at the bottom of a dark blue, cave-like opening that looks out onto a teal background. On the right is a black and white charcoal drawing of a similar composition, with dark, huddled forms next to jagged and wavy lines.

An open book showing pages 86 and 87 of an art history text in German. The spread features two artworks: on the left, a pale drawing by Auguste Rodin of a kneeling figure, and on the right, an abstract watercolor by Tracey Emin of a pink torso with a dark splotch and the words DARK BLACK LONELY SPACE.

An open art book spread across two pages, displaying four abstract watercolor paintings of nude figures. Three of the paintings depict seated figures in shades of red and pink, while the fourth, at the bottom right, shows a figure bending over, painted in shades of blue. The style is fluid and minimalist.

A two-page book spread displaying two similar abstract paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe from 1918. On the left, Over Blue features a central blue shape surrounded by vibrant, flowing forms in teal, yellow, and pink. On the right, Music – Pink and Blue No. 1 shows a similar blue shape framed by softer, layered folds of pink and white.

A two-page spread from an art book displaying three abstract pastel paintings from 1922. On the left is a large painting titled Wave, showing a stylized, curling wave in shades of green and blue against a tan background. On the right are two smaller, stacked paintings. The top one, A Storm, depicts a red lightning bolt over a dark sea with a crescent moon below. The bottom one, Lightning at Sea, shows a geometric red lightning bolt over water within a dark, circular frame.

A two-page spread from an art book comparing two floral artworks. On the left is a vertical charcoal drawing from 1934 of a dark, pointed banana flower. On the right is a colorful pastel painting from 1941, showing a close-up of a white orchid with a ruffled, greenish-yellow center.

A two-page book spread comparing two artworks. On the left is a realistic black-and-white drawing of a goat skull with large, twisting horns. On the right is a colorful, abstract pastel painting showing a close-up of a brown horn curving around a circle of bright blue sky.

A two-page spread from a book showing two vertical abstract paintings. The painting on the left, on a background of soft yellows and peaches, features a prominent, winding river-like form in bright pink. The painting on the right has a warm pink background and features a thick, curving form in a golden-ochre color that resembles a branch.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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Edited by: Samantha Friedman

Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe

Texts by: Samantha Friedman, Laura Neufeld

German

April 2023, 180 Pages, 197 Photos

Hardcover

230mm x 270mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5488-0

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
Mommsenstr. 27
10629 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: contact@hatjecantz.de

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"I have made this drawing several times—never remembering that I had made it before—and not knowing where the idea came from," wrote Georgia O'Keeffe in 1916 about her method of working on paper. A variety of her works were produced as series in charcoal, watercolors, pastels, or pencil. Paper offered her room to experiment freely. Through repetition she created a repertoire of motifs and continued developing her formal vocabulary, blurring the boundary between objectivity and abstraction, sheet by sheet. Featuring an outstanding selection of works from over four decades, this volume is the first to take a comprehensive look at O'Keeffe's works on paper, from the organic abstracts, nudes, and natural cycles of her early creative phase, to the flowers, portraits, and aerial views of the following decades. In their essays, Samantha Friedman and Laura Neufeld show how working with paper influenced this great artist's oeuvre and also elucidate her extraordinary position in American modernism.

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986) was one of the most prominent American artists of the twentieth century. Raised on a farm in Wisconsin, her pictures began drawing a good deal of attention in the New York of the 1920s. From 1929 onward, the austere landscape of New Mexico became the source of inspiration for her work.