O'Keeffe Georgia Georgia O'Keefe Personally Owned and Signed Book, With Excellent Associations"The Creative Will", by Willard Huntington Wright, the pseudonym of SS Van Dine from the "Thin Man Mystery" series. John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1916. Dark blue hardcover, 5" x 7.5". Very Good with lightly rubbed boards with edgewear. Slightly shaken binding with a bit of the mull exposed on the end papers. No Jacket. 1st Edition. DATED and SIGNED by Georgia O'Keeffe as "Georgia OKeeffe / Nov. 29 ~ 1916" (1916 was the year of O'Keeffe's first exhibition!). Additionally signed by Thomas Munroe, an art historian and curator of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and with the bookplate of Jules Prown, an American art historian who taught at Yale!! A fantastic group of signatures."The Creative Will", Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics. Art and Life, Problems of the Aesthetics, Art and the Artist, and Art and the Individual. A wonderful book with a superb signature by O'Keeffe from just before her rocketing rise to fame.Georgia O'Keeffe Bio:Seeking to find a personal visual language through which she could express her feelings and ideas, she began a series of abstract charcoal drawings in 1915 that represented a radical break with tradition and made O'Keeffe one of the very first American artists to practice pure abstraction.O'Keeffe mailed some of these highly abstract drawings to a friend in New York City, who showed them to Alfred Stieglitz. An art dealer and internationally known photographer, he was the first to exhibit her work in 1916. He would eventually become O'Keeffe's husband. By the mid-1920s, O'Keeffe was recognized as one of America's most important and successful artists, known for her paintings of New York skyscrapers—an essentially American image of modernity—as well as flowers.In the summer of 1929, O'Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico. The stark landscape, distinct indigenous art, and unique regional style of adobe architecture inspired a new direction in O'Keeffe's artwork. For the next two decades she spent part of most years living and working in New Mexico. She made the state her permanent home in 1949, three years after Stieglitz's death. O'Keeffe's New Mexico paintings coincided with a growing interest in regional scenes by American Modernists seeking a distinctive view of America. Her simplified and refined representations of this region express a deep personal response to the high desert terrain.In the 1950s, O'Keeffe began to travel internationally. She created paintings that evoked a sense of the spectacular places she visited, including the mountain peaks of Peru and Japan's Mount Fuji. At the age of seventy-three she embarked on a new series focused on the clouds in the sky and the rivers below.Suffering from macular degeneration and discouraged by her failing eyesight, O'Keeffe painted her last unassisted oil painting in 1972. But O'Keeffe's will to create did not diminish with her eyesight. In 1977, at age ninety, she observed, "I can see what I want to paint. The thing that makes you want to create is still there."Late in life, and almost blind, she enlisted the help of several assistants to enable her to again create art. In these works she returned to favorite visual motifs from her memory and vivid imagination.Georgia O'Keeffe died in Santa Fe, on March 6, 1986, at the age of 98.This item comes with a Certificate from John Reznikoff, a premier authenticator for both major 3rd party authentication services, PSA and JSA (James Spence Authentications), as well as numerous auction houses.WE PROVIDE IN-HOUSE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE!