Portrait of an Artist, Laurie Lisle
Portrait of an Artist, Laurie Lisle
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Portrait of an Artist

Author: Laurie Lisle

Narrator: Grace Conlin

Unabridged: 13 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

One of the most original painters America has ever produced, Georgia OKeeffes vivid visual vocabularysensuous flowers, bleached bones against red sky and earthhas had a profound and lasting influence on American art in this century. Renowned for her fierce independence, iron determination, and unique artistic vision, OKeeffes personal mystique is as intriguing and enduring as her bold, brilliant canvasses. Here is the first full account of her exceptional life: from her girlhood and early days as a controversial art teacher, to her discovery by the pioneering photographer of the New York avantgarde, Alfred Stieglitz, to her seclusion in the New Mexico desert, where she lived until her death. Here also is the story of a great romancebetween the extraordinary painter and her much older mentor, lover, and husband, Alfred Stieglitz.

About Laurie Lisle

Laurie Lisle is the author of Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness and Louise Nevelson: A Passionate Life. She lectures widely on O’Keeffe and writes essays, articles, and book reviews for various publications. She lives with her husband in northwestern Connecticut and Westchester County, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William2

I'm no great reader of biographies. I tend to find them lackluster with their cradle-to-grave narrative arc and cheap psychologizing. But this particular work is terrific. It's insightful. We see how Georgia O'Keeffe's talent developed early in life. In 1903-04 Georgia and her many sisters were driv......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

O’Keeffe was the consummate “artist” and any characterization could easily have been stiff and stereotypical, but not here. Lisle, more often than not, was able to pry open that guarded, introverted, almost misanthropic oyster that was Georgia O’Keeffe and gift us all with a fleeting glimpse of the......more

Goodreads review by Lin

This is one of the two biographies recommended to docents at the O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe--the less technical one, according to the gift shop assistant who helped me select one. I chose "less technical" because I wanted a fast read--and it was, because Georgia O'Keeffe was such an interesting per......more

Goodreads review by Claire

I read this book a long time ago, after first seeing some of the works of Georgia O'Keefe at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. I remember it being a wonderful feeling, something in her paintings resonated at a deep level, I didn't understand it, but I felt it and thus began a curious explor......more

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