Spring) and shared the artist’s room in this house, owned by Charles Ackerman, manager Seventeen-year-old sister Claudia moved to Canyon (their mother had died the previous
She roomed initially in a house half a mile directly west of the college. When twenty-eight-year-old O’Keeffe arrived in Canyon in early September 1916 toĪssume her duties as head of the art department at West Texas State Normal College, They also show, with great clarity, how the artistīalanced abstract and representational elements in her early work. Recognized, Roof with Snow and its studies r eveal the particular ways in which she appropriated his aesthetic and made it her own. Teachers (1899).2 While Dow’s decisive influence on O’Keeffe in this period has long been
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Influential book, Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and “structural harmony,” that she had absorbed from her teacher Arthur Wesley Dow and his (September 1916 to February 1918) was the aesthetic of decorative, relational form, or However, the mostĭirect influence on O’Keeffe’s painting during the year and a half she lived in Canyon Through her correspondence-recently unsealed-with Alfred Stieglitz. Many descriptions and illustrations of modern art came to O’Keeffe during this time Period, a period when various strands of American and European modernism were shaping Turn, opens a view to O’Keeffe’s artistic practices during her intensely experimental Texas Of her early works through progressive versions in the same medium. Together with Roof with Snow, provide a rare opportunity to follow the evolution of one These watercolor sketches, when considered Postcard-sized study sketches for it (figs. 1), representing a house in Canyon, Texas, and two A stop along the wayĪt the Amarillo Museum of Art, however, redirected my attention to architecture. Subjects of some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s important early watercolors. The landscapes of Palo Duro Canyon and the surrounding prairie that had been the When I first traveled to the Texas Panhandle several years ago, I was looking for landscapes.
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