{"product_id":"georgia-okeeffe-color-and-conservation-hardcover","title":"Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRené Paul Barilleaux\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSarah Whitaker Peters\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) has become one of America's best-known artists. This book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, centers on O'Keeffe's efforts to ensure proper conservation of the fragile surfaces of her paintings of bones, flowers, and landscapes. Based on previously unpublished correspondence between O'Keeffe and distinguished conservator Caroline Keck, this catalogue from the Mississippi Museum of Art presents entirely new information about the relationship between O'Keeffe's aesthetic vision and her distinctive handling of paint and pastel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO'Keeffe's use of color has long been regarded as a source of the great emotional power that animates her abstract renderings of natural forms. But little was known about her techniques, because she surrounded her studio practices with a wall of secrecy. Her correspondence with Keck reveals that she was surprisingly traditional, sometimes making her own color chips and pastel sticks and even at times grinding her own pigments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in \u003ci\u003eGeorgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation\u003c\/i\u003e consider the artist's enduring love of the very substance of color. Through close analysis of paintings and pastels with a continuous history of conservation, the essays document O'Keeffe's and Keck's painstaking efforts to restore damaged art to its original state. The discussion and accompanying illustrations will give readers an expanded understanding of the subtle beauty and diversity of O'Keeffe's painting methods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRené Paul Barilleaux is Curator of Art after 1945 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, and former Director for Programs at the Mississippi Museum of Art. In 2003, he curated \u003ci\u003ePassionate Observer: Photographs by Eudora Welty\u003c\/i\u003e at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Whitaker Peters, who earned her master's in art history from Columbia University and her doctorate from the City University of New York Graduate Center, lives in New York and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She has contributed essays on O'Keeffe to several journals and books, including \u003ci\u003eWomen Artists 1550-1950\u003c\/i\u003e, by Linda Nochlin and Ann Sutherland Harris, and most recently, to \u003ci\u003ePortraits of American Women\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 12.2 x 9.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50038118056184,"sku":"9781887422116","price":59.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/oEvG6UOtgw9781887422116.webp?v=1784789427","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/georgia-okeeffe-color-and-conservation-hardcover","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}