O'Keeffe: The Life of an American Legend

One of this centurys most beloved and celebrated artists Georgia OKeeffe transmitted her most intimate feelings onto her canvases. But the details of her private life were zealously guarded leaving the world to wonder: What was the inspiration and the impetus for her sexually charged flower paintings? What was the nature of her relationship with her much older husband photographer Alfred Stieglitz? Why did she lie about her past and hide herself from her public?. Journalist and author Jeffrey Hogrefe discloses the answers to these questions and more in OKeeffe a richly detailed biography that illuminates much of the mystery and intrigue that surround Georgia OKeeffe and finally reveals the real woman behind the legend. Hogrefes encounter with the ninety-three-year-old artist and with Juan Hamilton the young man she loved in her final years provided him with unique insights into her private world as well as into Hamiltons own controversial relationship with OKeeffe during the last fourteen years of her life.. Her acerbic personality her unconventional lifestyle and her struggles as an artist and a woman are brought to life in this definitive biography.