Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986)
Georgia O’Keeffe was the woman who chose to be both the maker and the muse. She came of age in a world that wanted women to be owned, creatively, emotionally, and relationally. She refused to be anyone's possession. Her paintings were less about what they showed and more about what they stripped away. Each one was a reclamation of selfhood. She became both legend and lover in the orbit of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, whose vision of her nearly consumed her. When that life grew too small, she left it all to find herself in the desert. There in New Mexico, O’Keeffe built a world from her own silence. This episode asks what she teaches us about love and identity, when creativity and intimacy collide, who owns the story?
FOR MORE:
Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters (ed. Jack Cowart & Juan Hamilton)
Roxana Robinson, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum – Santa Fe, New Mexico
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