O'Keeffe and Me: A Treasured Friendship - Hardcover

Looney, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870814060 ISBN 13: 9780870814068

Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado, 1995

Synopsis

Looney newspaper writer, photographer, and editor developed a warm friendship with Georgia O'Keefe in 1962 that lasted for many years. His anecdotal narrative is supplemented with numerous b&w photos intimate portraits of the artist and her environment. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Ralph Looney retired as chief editor of the Rocky Mountain News.

From Publishers Weekly:

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) projected in her later years a flint-hard toughness, yet the artist's pose as aloof recluse, according to Looney, was a carefully crafted image that concealed her warm personality and quick, well-honed sense of humor. This ingratiating memoir, decked out with scores of photographs, records Looney's friendship with the fiercely independent painter beginning in 1962, when he first interviewed her in New Mexico for a magazine piece, through the early 1970s. We meet a woman with complete, steely confidence in herself, a skeptical observer of people, a stalwart liberal who championed Kennedy and hated Nixon, a radiant survivor who braved the tragic, gradual loss of sight that hindered her artistic output from 1971 onward. Retired chief editor of the Rocky Mountain News, Looney includes his relaxed photographs of O'Keeffe, of her house interiors and of the wild, rugged, colorful landscape that she transmuted into the lyric poetry of her paintings.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0870814060
• ISBN 13: 9780870814068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 121