O'KEEFFE, GEORGIA / PENGUIN BOOKS — Georgia O'keeffe

New York: Penguin Books, 1977. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Illustrated by Georgia O'Keeffe. Color Illustrations; This is a folio sized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This is the first paperback edition. The book is mostly clean and bright. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1905, O'Keeffe began her serious formal art training at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League of New York, but she felt constrained by her lessons that focused on recreating or copying what was in nature. In 1908, unable to fund further education, she worked for two years as a commercial illustrator, and then taught in Virginia, Texas, and South Carolina between 1911 and 1918. During that time, she studied art during the summers between 1912 and 1914 and was introduced to the principles and philosophies of Arthur Wesley Dow, who created works of art based upon personal style, design, and interpretation of subjects, rather than trying to copy or represent them. This caused a major change in the way she felt about and approached art, as seen in the beginning stages of her watercolors from her studies at the University of Virginia and more dramatically in the charcoal drawings that she produced in 1915 that led to total abstraction." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .