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Weekends with O'Keeffe
C. S. Merrill
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Description for Weekends with O'Keeffe
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: AFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
In 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalogue her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but still painting. Over seven years, Merrill was called upon for secretarial assistance, cooking, and personal care for the artist. Merrill's journals reveal details of the daily life of a genius. The author describes how O'Keeffe stretched the canvas for her twenty-six-foot cloud painting and reports on O'Keeffe's favourite classical music and preferred performers. Merrill provided descriptions of nature when she ... Read more
In 1973 Georgia O'Keeffe employed C. S. Merrill to catalogue her library for her estate. Merrill, a poet who was a graduate student at the University of New Mexico, was twenty-six years old and O'Keeffe was eighty-five, almost blind, but still painting. Over seven years, Merrill was called upon for secretarial assistance, cooking, and personal care for the artist. Merrill's journals reveal details of the daily life of a genius. The author describes how O'Keeffe stretched the canvas for her twenty-six-foot cloud painting and reports on O'Keeffe's favourite classical music and preferred performers. Merrill provided descriptions of nature when she ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826349293
SKU
V9780826349293
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About C. S. Merrill
C. S. Merrill is the author of a book of poetry, O'Keeffe: Days in a Life (La Alameda Press, 1995).
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