Ida O'Keeffe : escaping Georgia's shadow / edited by Sue Canterbury ; with contributions by Sue Canterbury, Erin Piñon, Francesca Soriano, Lea Stephenson.
Catalog of an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art, November 18, 2018-February 24, 2019 and The Clark Art Institute, July 6-October 6, 2019. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Director's foreword / Agustín Arteaga -- Curatorial Acknowledgments / Sue Canterbury -- Introduction / Sue Canterbury -- Early Years and the search for a vocation / Sue Canterbury -- The Highland lighthouse series / Sue Canterbury -- Dynamic Symmetry in the Highland lighthouse series / Francesca Soriano -- Professional artist, teacher, author, and nurse: a fractured existence / Sue Canterbury -- Catalogue -- Ida O'Keeffe: a chronology / Lea Stephenson -- Exhibition history / Erin Piñon and Lea Stephenson -- Selected bibliography -- Illustration and copyright credits.
Summary:
This is the first publication devoted to Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe (1889-1961), the younger sister of Georgia O'Keeffe. It presents a thoughtful consideration of Ida's personal history and her creative work. As a professionally trained artist, graduating with an MFA from Columbia in 1932, Ida crafted an artistic identity that was dynamic and distinct in style and subject matter from that of her celebrated sibling. The positive critical attention she received became a source of tension between her and Georgia, who was determined that there would be only one painter in the family. Ida's complex relationship with Georgia and Alfred Stieglitz, though once loving and close, eventually devolved into estrangement. This volume illustrates works by Ida, including oils, watercolors, and monotypes, and examines their merits as well as their place within the aesthetics of American Modernism during the 1920s and 1930s.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.