GEORGIA O'KEEFE: TO SEE TAKES TIME

A revelatory new volume on the American modernist's lesser known works on paper, reuniting many serial works for the first time.  These drawings, and the majority of O'Keeffe's works in charcoal, watercolor, pastel, and graphite belong to series in which she develops and transforms motifs that lie between observation and abstraction.  In the formative years of 1915 - 1918, she made as many works on paper as she would in the next 40 years, producing sequences in watercolor of abstract lines, organic landscapes and nudes, along with charcoal drawings she would group according to the designation 'specials.'  While her practice turned increasingly toward canvas in subsequent decades, important series on paper appeared - including charcoal flowers of the 1930w, portraits of the 1940s and aerial views of the 1950w.

184 pages