American artist O'Keeffe (1887-1986) painted landscapes, bones, shells, and highly suggestive, sensual, fleshy flowers through the eyes of a poet. She favored the simplicity of the desert, and her observations of venues ranging from New York to New Mexico inspired her unique natural forms. This catalog accompanying a show traveling from the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada, celebrates O'Keeffe's Irish heritage with three brief essays focusing on her originality and stating she was without progenitors.
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