Weekends with O'Keeffe
by C. S. Merrill
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- ISBN 13
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About This Item
University of New Mexico Press, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In 1973 Georgia O Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalogue her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but still painting. Over seven years, Merrill was called upon for secretarial assistance, cooking, and personal care for the artist. Merrill s journals reveal details of the daily life of a genius. The author describes how O Keeffe stretched the canvas for her twenty-six-foot cloud painting and reports on O Keeffe s favourite classical music and preferred performers. Merrill provided descriptions of nature when she and the artist went for walks; she read to O Keeffe from her favourite books and helped keep her space in meticulous order. Throughout the book there are sketches of O Keeffe s studio and an account of once assisting O Keeffe at the easel. Jockeying for position among the helpers O Keeffe relied upon was part of daily life at Abiquiu, where territorial chows guarded the property. Visitors came from far and wide, among them Eliot Porter and even Allen Ginsberg accompanied by Peter Orlovsky.All this is revealed in Merrill s straightforward and deeply respectful notes. Reading her book is like spending a weekend with O Keeffe in the incomparable light and clear air of Northern New Mexico mountains and desert.
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- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE (CA)
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- Title
- Weekends with O'Keeffe
- Author
- C. S. Merrill
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0826349293
- ISBN 13
- 9780826349293
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a
- Date Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 224
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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