Georgia O'Keeffe and Her Artist Sisters: Issues of Identity
A Sunny Kaufman Lecture presented by Barbara Buhler Lynes, Ph.D.
In the mid-1930s, Georgia O’Keeffe asked her artist sisters, Ida and Catherine, to abandon making art and their burgeoning careers despite her earlier strong support of their work. Catherine quit, but Ida did not. Barbara Buhler Lynes’s fascinating lecture will demonstrate how Georgia’s request was motivated by her and her husband’s (photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s) fears of Georgia losing her identity as an important American modernist and that her request had more to do with Catherine’s art than Ida’s.
Barbara Buhler Lynes is the Museum’s Sunny Kaufman Senior Curator. She is the preeminent scholar on the life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe and was formerly the founding curator, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, and the founding director of its research center. She is the author of numerous books on the artist and her contemporaries, including Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonné.
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wow! this story should be done into a movie. thank you for this
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I agree. This would be a wonderful movie!
This was just EXCELLENT! Thank you so much - it added so much depth to a view into each of their lives. Also, as the person commented below, it truly would make a terrific movie!!
Had the shoe been on the other foot, it seems utterly inconceivable that Georgia would have ever considered giving up painting if Ida or Catherine had asked her to. When it came to protecting her brand, Georgia was viciously self-serving and hypocritical. Contrary to Stieglitz's manipulative assertion, it was visually obvious among that there was more than "one O'Keeffe" with world class painting talent. How can one legitimately claim to be a champion of free self-expression and respect for feminine artistry while stifling the artistic advancement of her sisters? When Ida persisted with her painting and exhibiting, Georgia ended their relationship, never reconciling with her sister.
Just back from SF. The roads are so scary that they made me not want to go out. How di Georgia get to those remote MTS? I wouldn't go to the top of some of the places for fear of tripping. She was quite fearless. Too bad I never heard about her sisters who were very talented. She was jealous. Her husband was quite the JERK.
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I would certainly Not have stopped making art! Bye bye sis!