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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that the numbers speak for themselves. The support money from Cambridge will decline over time," hospital administrator John O'Brien told the council...
...O'Keeffe exhibited the bold flower paintings that further inflamed her reputation. They have since become the staple of a prolific calendar and poster industry. But when the overripe irises and hollyhocks first appeared, the critics were intrigued, the public scandalized, the artist discomfited. When an interviewer remarked that the blossoms resembled female genitalia, O'Keeffe ordered her to turn off the microphone and refused to speak about "such rubbish...
Stieglitz finally married his mistress in 1924. But several years later, he became infatuated with a younger woman. A series of domestic and professional skirmishes followed; O'Keeffe suffered a breakdown and stopped painting. It was two years before she saw a way out: "If I can keep my courage and leave Stieglitz," she told a friend, "I plan to go West...
Still, it is the later artist who has won a more valid celebrity. This is the solitary poet of the desert, interpreter of bleached bone and sand and light -- light all around. O'Keeffe lived to be 98 and became the '60s and '70s apotheosis of feminine independence. But she was never quite so leathery as she appeared. Robinson's final chapters suggest a Tennessee Williams scenario, with an old woman smitten and exploited by her handsome protege, ceramist Juan Hamilton. Over the family's protests, Hamilton manipulated the painter's affairs until her death in 1986. He was eventually...
...work outlives the folly and redeems the sadness. Throughout the artist's long career, that was always the case. Every biography of O'Keeffe -- including this massive one -- is really an elaboration of the message she sent a student back in 1924: "Making your unknown known is the important thing -- and keeping the unknown always beyond you. Catching, crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life -- only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead -- that you must always keep working to grasp...