Born in 1887, Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great figures in the history of the emancipation of modern art from its American essence. At a time when women were primarily wives and mothers, O'Keefe defied convention when she became first the companion, then the wife, of the famous photographer and f
Miss O'Keeffe
β Scribed by Christine Taylor Patten, Alvaro Cardona-Hine
- Publisher
- University of New Mexico Press
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia OKeeffe, then ninety-six. Also an artist, Patten served as nurse, cook, companion, and friend to the older woman. This intimate account of the year of Pattens employment, first published in 1992 and now in paperback for the first time, offers a rare glimpse of OKeeffes daily life when she could no longer see well enough to paint.
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