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24. GOK to William Howard Schubart, Dec. 23, 1950, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 257.
25. GOK to Louise March, early 1940s, cited in Robinson, A Life, p. 477.
26. GOK to Daniel Catton Rich, Nov. 13, 1949, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 249.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. GOK to AP, Dec. 13, 1949, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 286.
31. Seiberling, “Horizons.”
32. Author’s interview with Maria Chabot, July 15, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
33. Tomkins, Notes.
34. Sarah L. Burt, Ruth E. Fine, et al., The Back Room: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Library in Abiquiu (Abiquiu, N.M.: The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation; New York: The Grolier Club, 1997).
35. GOK to William Howard Schubart, July 28, 1950, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 253.
36. GOK to William Howard Schubart, July 25, 1952, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 262.
Chapter II
1. GOK to Albert Barnes, June 22, 1947, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 245.
2. I thank Don Bachardy for drawing my attention to this excerpt, published in Christopher Isherwood, Diaries: 1939–1960, vol. 1, edited by Katharine Bucknell (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), pp. 427–31.
3. Mary E. Adams, “The Underside of the Iris,” From the Faraway Nearby, p. 218.
4. Hamilton, “In O’Keeffe’s World,” Art and Letters, p. 8.
5. Author’s interview with Floyd Trujillo, May 2, 1988, Ghost Ranch, N.M. Trujillo also reported that O’Keeffe never wore sunglasses because she wanted to see the exact colors of the landscape, which contributed to the deterioration of her eyesight.
6. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
7. GOK to William Howard Schubart, Jan. 19, 1951, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 258.
8. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Sept. 30, 1950, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 254.
9. GOK to Claudia O’Keeffe, Nov. 5, 1951, Museum of Fine Arts Library and Archives, Museum of New Mexico, by permission of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
10. GOK to William Howard Schubart, July 28, 1950, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 253.
11. GOK to William Howard Schubart, Dec. 23, 1950, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 257.
12. GOK to Russell Vernon Hunter, Jan. 1932, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 204.
13. Jeffrey Hogrefe, O’Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 222.
14. GOK to Carl Van Vechten, postcard, n.d., YCAL.
15. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Nov. 3, 1951, YCAL.
16. Gallup, Pigeons, p. 238.
17. Ralph Looney, O’Keeffe and Me: A Treasured Friendship (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1995), p. 14.
18. GOK to Claudia O’Keeffe, 1952, Museum of Fine Arts Library and Archives, Museum of New Mexico, by permission of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
Chapter III
1. Tomkins, Notes.
2. Webb, Looking Back, p. 76.
3. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 228.
4. Gallup, Pigeons, p. 240.
5. Tomkins, Notes.
6. GOK to Carl Van Vechten, Jan. 1950, YCAL.
7. O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe.
8. GOK to William Howard Schubart, Apr. 2, 1953, cited in Cowart, Hamilton, and Greenough, Art and Letters, p. 263.
9. Tomkins, Notes.
10. Alan Priest to GOK, Feb. 16, 1953, YCAL.
11. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Aug. 10, 1958, YCAL.
12. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Sept. 13, 1955, YCAL.
13. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 236. None of Ida’s letters were found in O’Keeffe’s estate, though she kept the letters from her other sisters.
14. GOK to AP, May 31, 1955, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 298.
15. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 231.
16. Niven, Steichen, p. 635.
17. Webb, Looking Back, p. 154.
18. GOK to AP, Oct. 24, 1955, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 302.
19. GOK to AP, Jan. 28, 1956, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 306.
20. GOK to Carl Van Vechten, Apr. 27, 1956, YCAL.
21. GOK to AP, Jan. 28, 1956, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 306.
22. Tomkins, Notes.
23. Author’s interview with Eve Babitz, Los Angeles, Apr. 7, 2003.
24. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
25. Mary E. Adams, “The Underside of the Iris,” From the Faraway Nearby, p. 218.
26. Author’s interview with Alexander and Susan Girard, Apr. 7, 1986, Santa Fe, N.M.
Chapter IV
1. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 233. Anita Young’s claim was settled in her favor.
2. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Feb. 26, 1958, YCAL.
3. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Apr. 21, 1958, YCAL.
4. Ibid.
5. GOK to Lester Markel, Oct. 14, 1949, YCAL.
6. GOK to AP, Oct. 1950, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 296.
7. GOK to AP, Jan 17, 1956, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 305.
8. AP to GOK, Jan. 28, 1956, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 306.
9. Eldredge, American and Modern, p. 35.
10. O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe.
11. HMB to GOK, Nov. 26, 1958, YCAL.
12. GOK to Francis O’Keeffe, June 1959, YCAL.
13. GOK to Francis O’Keeffe, Feb. 23, 1960, YCAL.
14. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
15. Seiberling, “Horizons.”
16. Robinson, A Life, p. 494.
17. Eldredge, American and Modern, p. 36.
18. O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe.
19. Eldredge, American and Modern, p. 37.
20. Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Poetry of Things, p. 14.
21. Sabine, “Record Price for Living Artist.”
22. Adams, “The Underside of the Iris,” From the Faraway Nearby, p. 222.
23. Lovingly, Georgia, p. 296.
Chapter V
1. Daniel Catton Rich, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Forty Years of Her Art,” essay for catalogue of O’Keeffe retrospective at Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass., Oct. 4–Dec. 4, 1960.
2. Seiberling, “Horizons.”
3. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, July 23, 1960, YCAL.
4. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Jan. 2, 1961, YCAL.
5. Curator Bruce Guenther to author, Mar. 15, 1998.
6. Barbara Buhler Lynes with Russell Bowman, O’Keeffe’s O’Keeffes: The Artist’s Collection (Milwaukee, Wis.: Milwaukee Art Museum and Georgia O’Keeffe Museum with Thames and Hudson, 2001), pp. 30–58.
7. GOK to Claudia O’Keeffe, Apr. 29, 1961, Museum of Fine Arts Library and Archives, Museum of New Mexico, by permission of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
8. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
9. GOK to Claudia O’Keeffe, July 19, 1961, Museum of Fine Arts Library and Archives, Museum of New Mexico, by permission of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
10. Author’s interview with Eliot and Aline Porter, April 7, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
11. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M. (The area no longer exists. It was flooded after a dam was constructed to create Lake Powell. The Sierra Club is lobbying to have the man-made lake drained to restore Glen Canyon.)
12. Eldredge, American and Modern, p. 36.
13. GOK to Claudia O’Keeffe, Oct. 12, 1962, Museum of Fine Arts Library and Archives, Museum of New Mexico, by permission of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
14. Ibid.
15. GOK to Claudia O’Keeffe, Sept. 19, 1960, Museum of Fine Arts Library and Archives, Museum of New Mexico, by permission
of the Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation.
16. Looney, O’Keeffe and Me, p. 13.
17. Ibid., p. 12.
18. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, June 20, 1964, YCAL.
19. Author’s interview with June O’Keeffe Sebring, Apr. 20, 1988, Santa Fe, N.M.
20. Looney, O’Keeffe and Me, p. 37.
21. Ibid., p. 22.
22. Kotz, “A Day with Georgia O’Keeffe.”
23. Sam Hunter, essay in catalogue for exhibition American Modernism: The First Wave, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Oct. 4–Nov. 10, 1963, p. 23.
24. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
25. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Aug. 1963, YCAL.
26. Looney, O’Keeffe and Me, p. 41.
27. Author’s interview with Doris Bry, Dec. 16, 1989, New York City.
28. O’Keeffe, Some Memories of Drawings. In 1964, Webb bought O’Keeffe a second camera, a Polaroid. O’Keeffe painstakingly read all of the instructions before attempting to operate it.
29. Looney, O’Keeffe and Me, p. 14.
Chapter VI
1. D’Emilio and Campbell, Spirit and Vision, p. 8.
2. Janice Guercio, “Great Woman Artist Honored,” Sunday New Mexican, Mar. 1, 1964.
3. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
4. Author’s interview with Rolf Nelson, Nov. 8, 1988, New York City.
5. Gallup, Pigeons, p. 237.
6. Peter Plagens, “A Georgia O’Keeffe Retrospective in Texas,” Artforum, May 1966.
7. Ibid.
8. E. C. Goosen, “O’Keeffe,” Vogue, March 1967.
9. Tomkins, “The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine.”
10. Goosen, “O’Keeffe.”
11. Rebecca Salisbury James to PS, July 5, 1964, PSC, CCP.
12. AP to GOK, Oct. 19, 1967, Lovingly, Georgia, p. 319.
13. Clive Giboire, “Afterword,” Lovingly, Georgia, pp. 322.
14. Ibid., pp. 323–24.
15. Robinson, A Life, p. 511.
16. Gallup, Pigeons, p. 232.
17. Author’s interview with Margaret Kiskadden, July 24, 1987, Beverly Hills, Calif.
18. Daniel Catton Rich to GOK, May 4, 1973, YCAL.
19. Seiberling, “Horizons.”
20. Author’s interview with Richard Pritzlaff, Aug. 8, 1987, Rancho San Ignacio, N.M.
21. Author’s interview with Letitia Evans “Tish” Frank, Sept. 13, 2002, Santa Fe, N.M.
22. Tompkins, Notes.
Chapter VII
1. O’Keeffe, Some Memories of Drawings.
2. Tomkins, “The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine.”
3. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 241.
4. Daniel Catton Rich to GOK, Oct. 23, 1970, NL, YCAL.
5. Tomkins, “The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine.”
6. Robinson, A Life, p. 517.
7. GOK to Betty O’Keeffe, Mar. 16, 1930, YCAL.
8. Adams, “The Underside of the Iris,” From the Faraway Nearby, p. 218.
9. Author’s interview with Todd and Lucille Webb, July 21, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
10. Author’s interview with Dennis Hopper, Apr. 12, 1987, Venice, Calif.
11. Author’s interview with Margaret Kiskadden, July 24, 1987, Beverly Hills, Calif.
12. Andy Warhol, “Georgia O’Keeffe and Juan Hamilton,” Interview, Sept. 1983.
13. GOK to Dr. Glenn Dayton Jr., Mar. 3, 1972, collection of Spencer Maxwell, Santa Fe, N.M.
14. Author’s interview with Margaret Kiskadden, July 24, 1987, Beverly Hills, Calif.
15. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 257.
Chapter VIII
1. Adams, “The Underside of the Iris,” From the Faraway Nearby, p. 218.
2. In Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Lynes puts Hamilton’s arrival at Nov. 1973.
3. C. S. Merrill, “6,” from O’Keeffe: Days in a Life (Albuquerque, N.M.: La Alameda Press, 1995), p. 6.
4. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M. Hamilton was dressed in jeans and a pressed white shirt when he met me at the Casa Sena restaurant in Santa Fe, where he was an investor. After talking for more than an hour over lunch, we continued the interview in his capacious Canyon Road studio, where examples of his spherical black clay sculptures stood on the floor. After a short time, he lay down on a blanket-covered couch to continue answering my questions in comfort.
5. Ibid.
6. Robinson, A Life, p. 523.
7. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
8. Ibid.
9. Hamilton, “In O’Keeffe’s World,” Art and Letters, p. 8.
10. Ibid.
11. Author’s interview with Calvin Tomkins, Nov. 6, 1988, New York City.
12. Ibid.
13. Author’s interview with Alexander and Susan Girard, Apr. 7, 1986, Santa Fe, N.M.
14. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
15. Author’s interview with Alexander and Susan Girard, Apr. 17, 1986, Santa Fe, N.M.
16. Robinson, A Life, p. 527.
17. O’Keeffe, Some Memories of Drawings.
18. Ibid.
19. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe.
24. Author’s interview with Margaret Kiskadden, July 24, 1987, Beverly Hills, Calif.
25. Author’s interview with Carol and Paul Sarkisian, Aug. 2, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
26. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
27. Tomkins, “The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine.”
28. Author’s interview with Virginia Adams, Feb. 3, 1990, Big Sur, Calif.
29. Author’s interview with Calvin Tomkins, Nov. 6, 1988, New York City.
30. Tomkins, “The Rose in the Eye Looked Pretty Fine.”
31. Hamilton, “In O’Keeffe’s World,” Art and Letters, p. 11.
32. John Poling, “Painting with O’Keeffe,” From the Faraway Nearby, p. 205.
33. Ibid., p. 198.
34. Ibid., p. 202.
35. Ibid., p. 204.
36. Robinson, A Life, p. 539.
Chapter IX
1. Author’s interview with Doris Bry, Dec. 16, 1989, New York City.
2. Author’s interview with Barney Ebsworth, July 23, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
3. Ibid.
4. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Edith Evans Asbury, Wisconsin Star Journal, Oct. 14, 1987. After O’Keeffe’s death in 1986, city fathers named the library’s public meeting room after O’Keeffe and hung posters of her work on the walls. A plaque also marks the site of her former homestead.
8. Author’s interview with Frank Prosser Jr., May 28, 1988, Lake George, N.Y.
9. Author’s interview with Dennis Hopper, Apr. 12, 1987, Venice, Calif.
10. Author’s interview with Margaret Kiskadden, July 24, 1987, Beverly Hills, Calif.
11. GOK to Margaret Kiskadden, Sept. 3, 1977, YCAL.
12. Author’s interview with Letitia Evans “Tish” Frank, Sept. 13, 2002, Santa Fe, N.M.
13. Patten and Cardona-Hine, Miss O’Keeffe, p. 127.
14. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 290 A few years earlier, Dorothy Norman’s photographs of Stieglitz were published in a book by Random House. Light Gallery exhibited some of the photographs and a naive publicist wrote to O’Keeffe asking permission to include Stieglitz’s portraits of her. At the bottom of this request, the artist scrawled tersely, “Sorry—No.”
15. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
16. Ibid.
17. Author’s interview with Michael and Pat York, July 4, 2001, Beverly Hills, Calif.
18. GOK to Margaret Owi
ngs, Sept. 13, 1976, YCAL.
19. Author’s interview with Margaret Owings, Feb. 3, 1990, Big Sur, Calif.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Jean Seth, O’Keeffe Symposium, Santa Fe, N.M., July 22, 1997.
24. Ibid.
25. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 294.
Chapter X
1. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 295.
2. Author’s interview with Barney Ebsworth July 23, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
3. Ibid.
4. Jo Ann Lewis, “Doris Bry and The Legacy of O’Keeffe,” Washington Post, Jan. 7, 1990.
5. Author’s interview with Barney Ebsworth, July 23, 1997, Santa Fe, N.M.
6. Ibid.
7. Author’s interview with Dorothy Norman, Apr. 12, 1987, New York City.
8. GOK to Sue Davidson Lowe, Apr. 3, 1981, YCAL.
9. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 297.
10. Ibid.
11. Ted Reid to GOK, Nov. 26, 1976, ASA, YCAL.
12. Patten and Cardona-Hine, Miss O’Keeffe, p. 117.
13. Author’s interview with Juan Hamilton, July 31, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
14. Ibid.
Chapter XI
1. Patten and Cardona-Hine, Miss O’Keeffe, p. 74.
2. Ibid., p. 50.
3. Hogrefe, Legend, p. 309.
4. Patten and Cardona-Hine, Miss O’Keeffe, p. 156.
5. Ibid., p. 92.
6. Ibid., p. 170.
7. Ibid., p. 97.
8. Author’s interview with Paul and Carol Sarkisian, Aug. 2, 1987, Santa Fe, N.M.
9. Ibid.
10. Patten and Cardona-Hine, Miss O’Keeffe, p. 88.
11. Lynes, O’Keeffe’s O’Keeffes, p. 63. The idea of founding a museum or a wing in a museum was discussed with O’Keeffe by Joseph Hirshhorn, Crosby Kemper, Emily Fisher Landau, and Gerald Peters. Anne and John Marion founded the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe in 1997.
Coda
1. Robinson, A Life, pp. 557–59.
2. Lynes with Bowman, O’Keeffe’s O’Keeffes, p. 70.
3. Ibid., pp. 63–66.
4. Sarah L. Burt, The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation Bulletin 1994–2000 (Abiquiu, N.M., 2001), pp. 14–34.
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