--- product_id: 8283522 title: "Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe" brand: "laurie lisle" price: "€ 49.39" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 12 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/8283522-portrait-of-an-artist-a-biography-of-georgia-okeeffe store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe **Brand:** laurie lisle **Price:** € 49.39 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe by laurie lisle - **How much does it cost?** € 49.39 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/8283522-portrait-of-an-artist-a-biography-of-georgia-okeeffe) ## Best For - laurie lisle enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted laurie lisle brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Laurie LislePortrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe ## Images ![Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71qiuFsRX8L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Song of You ... *by T***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2020* In this book Laurie Lisle has produced one of best biographies of an artist to be found in the wide bibliography of modern art, and a classic among biographies in general. It is more thoroughly researched, more informative, more engaging to read, and better able to sound the depths of the mystery of Georgia O’Keeffe than are later biographies of this quintessential American artist. As a first biography of the artist as well as Lisle’s own first book, Portrait of an Artist offers us the experience of the liveliness of Lisle’s discovery of O’Keeffe and of her own literary coming-of-age at once. The elixir here is courage. Without intruding herself upon the reader, one has a sense that the young author is linked to her subject through the fearless capacity for self-realization that O’Keeffe’s story offers us. The best scholarship leaves us with traces of the author’s own growth, and herein we sense that this writer is empowered and ennobled by successfully undertaking this daunting authorial project with resolution and humility.Beginning with O’Keeffe’s girlhood on her father’s farm in Sun Prairie Wisconsin, the biography follows O’Keeffe through the expanse of her life of 99 years, which spans the entire history of modernism. Just as engagingly, Lisle leads us across the wide spaces of the American landscape as we are introduced to Charlottesville Virginia, where O’Keeffe’s father moves when she is an adolescent, and then on to New York City, with forays to the Texas Panhandle and Lake George, and finally to her move to the New Mexico desert which O’Keeffe’s whole being seemed to mirror and offer back to the earth.Central to the story of O’Keeffe is her art. O’Keeffe’s painting and her life are as interwoven as her art is with the landscape. Determined to be an artist from the time she was a teenager, O’Keeffe’s story is one of devotion to her talent to express her vision of the world around her. Uncompromising in her aesthetic needs, from her austerity of dress to the furnishings of her dwellings, she sacrificed convention, often at some expense, to engage and distill the beauty of the world around her and offer this beauty up to others in her painting. The conventional aspect of O’Keeffe’s life, her marriage to the photographer, gallerist, and critic Alfred Stieglitz, 23 years her senior, was characteristically unconventional. Otherwise, much of her story reads like the life of an American saint or a medieval anchorite. Reclusive, ascetic, devoted to her calling, self-disciplined, and a stranger to compromise, she survived bouts with usually-fatal diseases, and domestic difficulties with Stieglitz. Stieglitz, to his enduring credit, was unwavering in his support of her as an artist, and with her placed this above all else. Stieglitz had been a vocal proponent for a truly American art, independent of the influence of the schools of Europe, and in O’Keeffe this dream was realized.The shape of this dream is an oeuvre whose splendor and originality the art world even now hasn’t fully come to terms with, and the art-loving public yet has an appetite for exhibitions and retrospectives of O’Keeffe’s work still taking place thirty-four years after her death.As a record of O’Keeffe’s life, and as a window into the mystery of the profound potential latent in our humanity when it is released by the siren call of art, O’Keeffe’s story, like her art, illuminates all of us. The great unfolding flower of her life tells us about the romance of finding our own way, and of the importance of attending to the ground beneath our feet and the forms around us to orient ourselves in the quest to live truthfully. As an art librarian I would say there are few books more essential for a collection that seeks to tell the full story of modern art than Portrait of an Artist. The book is also a supremely entertaining read. And as an exemplar, especially for young people looking for models for a way of living honestly, and especially for young women, this book will be a godsend. There is no better self-help book than a good biography.Thomas Hill,Art LibrarianVassar College ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Observe and focus *by L***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2023* The life of this strong woman of humble beginnings kept my attention. She was born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; I, Oshkosh. She spent time in Virginia where I hovered around in the seminary and the army. She was inspired by Amarillo and the sights of the Texas panhandle where my nature loving best friend grew up. She was in New Mexico when this friend and I went to the San Ildefonso Pueblo to see pottery by Marie. I’ve walked and enjoyed much of the same landscapes as she and appreciate how she absorbed it and painted it. I enjoyed it. She breathed it in and painted it out. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very thorough, insightful. Great read. *by V***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 4, 2022* I'm teaching a class on O'Keffee. 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