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Georgia O'Keeffe - Currently UnavailableAmerican painter Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) talks about her training, her relationship with and marriage to American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), her thirty years in New York, and her move to Abiquiu, New Mexico, after Stieglitz's death in 1946. The film examines the many stages in O'Keeffe's artistic development, stressing her wide range of subject and styles. Includes footage from the 1948 travelogue LAND OF ENCHANTMENT, SOUTHWEST U.S.A., as well as comments by sculptor Juan Hamilton, who was her assistant, and critics Barbara Rose and Daniel Catton Rich. The Originals: Women in Art series.Curator's Comments: A classic-one of the outstanding profiles of an artist. Clearly shows O'Keeffe's art and her sources of inspiration, as well as incorporating her own comments on her life and work. Beautifully filmed and edited. An important record of a major twentieth-century artist. DATE: 1977 COUNTRY: United States CREDITS: PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: TOPICS:
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