Description
A first edition, first printing of Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams – Natural Affinities, published by Little, Brown and Company, New York in 2001, with essays by Barbara Buhler Lynes, Sandra S. Phillips and Richard B Woodward. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, bumping to lower edge of front and rear boards, some light shelf-wear to rear board. In a near fine unclipped wrapper, chipping to head of the spine, damp-stained upper edge of rear panel and closed tear to lower edge.
Published as the catalogue for the exhibition Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities in 2008, the exhibition opened at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, from May 23 to September 7, 2008, then toured to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Norton Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through 2009. It explores the visual and personal connections between two major American modernists, pairing O’Keeffe’s paintings with Adams’s photographs, it focuses on their shared love of the American Southwest, natural forms, light, scale and abstraction. The book shows how both artists transformed landscape into powerful, simplified images of place, spirit and modern American identity.
