Edward C. Robison III. Eventually O'Keeffe made Lopez her secretary. Despite becoming close, Lopez says she "never felt comfortable calling her Georgia. It just didn't fit. And people called her Mrs Stieglitz, which she didn't like. She was so odd. She was a single woman.
She was independent. She always dressed in black. And she loved to do all these strange things — like walk and paint trees.
In time, though, the locals warmed to her. They also respected her desire for privacy. By the Sixties, O'Keeffe was an international celebrity. In , Life magazine put her on the cover. People started turning up unannounced to her house in Abiquiu, hoping to meet the great artist. Mostly, villagers pretended that they didn't know where she lived.
Occasionally, though, a well-wisher would slip through the net. Once, one of Lopez's acquaintances took a stranger to see her. O'Keeffe appeared at the door, realised what was happening, turned around on the spot, and announced: "Now you've seen me", before disappearing back inside. Georgia O'Keeffe captured in a pensive mood by her husband - philanderer - and prominent American photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
Yet Lopez believes that the popular perception of O'Keeffe as a recluse is wrong. Was she a misanthrope? She loved a good joke. She loved to laugh. Moreover, Lopez continues, when deteriorating eyesight blighted her final years, O'Keeffe didn't become depressed.
Instead, she just got on with everyday life — and even took up pottery. She would tell people, 'He is my eyes and my ears. And when she was in a bad mood, boy, she was tough!
But over time she developed an affection for me that I wasn't expecting or looking for. When she was in a bad mood, boy, she was tough! Hamilton still isn't quite sure exactly why O'Keeffe took to him over her many admirers, but he has a few theories.
She was high-minded about everything, not just art. She was very specific about the dimensions of things, the placement of a window, where the light comes in. The magic of how you put a flower in a vase, how you put the vase on a table. Whenever I walked in the door, she would say, 'Oh, Juan, I'm so glad to see you.
Hamilton was also a sponge for O'Keeffe's stories. I think her marriage to Stieglitz was difficult. He insisted on them getting married, and she agreed to it. But she said she cried all night before it, and just didn't feel it was right. O'Keeffe's relationship with Hamilton grew increasingly intimate, to the mounting suspicions of O'Keeffe's friends and neighbors. They'd say, 'That guy must have ulterior motives. He must be after her money,' " Hamilton says. O'Keeffe's cook was among his enemies, and she even tried to starve him out when he began spending nights at the house.
Why should I take you seriously if you won't even tell me your name? O'Keeffe was protective, but she could also be possessive. She said, 'The nerve of her.
I know she had other intentions. But that's all trash talk, and that's what people like to do—gossip. The vivid colors and shapes in her paintings were unique and caught the attention of a New York gallery owner and art promoter, Alfred Stieglitz.
She appeared in over nude photos taken by Stieglitz and the images created a stir of controversy in the New York art community of the time.
Both women were invited to New Mexico to be the guests of a wealthy art patron, Mabel Dodge Luhan, who wanted to see the artists capture the scenery around Taos. Art critics still to this day interpret her flower paintings to be depictions of the female anatomy…which created quite a stir at the time.
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