This groundbreaking book compares the art, lives, and achievements of three great artists of the Americas: Emily Carr of Canada, Georgia O'Keeffe of the United States, and Frida Kahlo of Mexico. Each became her country's preeminent woman painter in the twentieth century, and all explored similar issues in their painting. Sharyn Udall shows how each artist searched for an authentic, personal identity and analyzes in detail the issues these women faced in relation to nationality, nature, gender, and the creation of a personal mythology. Although their work is visually disparate, certain interesting themes connect Carr, O'Keeffe, and Kahlo, and Udall draws on rich archives and uses specific works of art to illustrate the differences and similarities among the three. By viewing their work collectively, she shows how we can illuminate in new ways the art of a continent.

Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own

Arts & Photography

Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

A landmark examination of the art and artists inspired by American dance from 1830 to 1960 As an enduring wellspring of creativity for many artists throughout history, dance has provided a visual language to express such themes as the bonds of community, the allure of the exotic, and the pleasures of the body. This book is the first major investigation of the visual arts related to American dance, offering an unprecedented, interdisciplinary overview of dance-inspired works from 1830 to 1960. Fourteen essays by renowned historians of art and dance analyze the ways dance influenced many of America’s most prominent artists, including George Caleb Bingham, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Cecilia Beaux, Isamu Noguchi, Aaron Douglas, Malvina Hoffman, Edward Steichen, Arthur Davies, William Johnson, and Joseph Cornell. The artists did not merely represent dance, they were inspired to think about how Americans move, present themselves to one another, and experience time. Their artwork, in turn, affords insights into the cultural, social, and political moments in which it was created. For some artists, dance informed even the way they applied paint to canvas, carved a sculpture, or framed a photograph. Richly illustrated, the book includes depictions of Irish-American jigs, African-American cakewalkers, and Spanish-American fandangos, among others, and demonstrates how dance offers a means for communicating through an aesthetic, static form.

Dance: American Art, 1830-1960

Hart, Dakin

Hill, Constance Valis

DeFrantz, Thomas F.

Garafola, Lynn

Myers, Kenneth John

Leppanen-Guerra, Analisa

Mercer, Valerie J.

Murphy, Jacqueline Shea

Robertson, E. Bruce

Detroit Institute of Arts

ABOUT THIS BOOK -- Most books about New Mexico painters focus on "the Taos artists of the early 20th century, successful but generally traditional in their romantic-realist techniques and subject matter." This book "is the first to examine modern painting in New Mexico from a stylistic viewpoint -- not just a geographical or historic one," describing the work and careers of twenty modernist painters. Some, like Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davi, and Edward Hopper worked in the state briefly. Others settled permanently in the state -- Andrew Dasburg, Raymond Johnson, and, of course, Georgia O'Keeffee. "By placing southwestern art in a national context, this book adds a new dimension to the history of the region" and new perspectives to modernism painting in general. BOOK DETAILS -- cloth over boards with a sewn binding; issued with dustjacket; 238 pp; color and b&amp;w illustrations throughout; 22 pp of bibliographic information.

Modernist Painting in New Mexico, 1913-1935

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Spud Johnson and Laughing Horse is a portrait of the soul of a generation of artists and writers, the story of the men and women who made New Mexico a center of regional American literature, criticism and visual arts in the 1920s and 30s. Sharyn Udall's lively account of the quirky editor, poet, journalist, diarist and printer Walter Willard 'Spud' Johnson focuses especially on brilliant and diverse artists-D. H. Lawrence, Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Witter Bynner, Georgia O'Keeffe and John Marin among them-whom he befriended and published. Together they helped to create a new voice for the Southwest, fusing high art and low, repudiating the derivative cultural tradition of their predecessors, and bringing the Native American and Hispanic cultural heritage to the attention of the American mainstream.

Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The Southwest has long beckoned the artist. But too often, art made by Euro-Americans drawn to this region has either 'basked in the sunny celebration of the picturesque, the exotic, and the sentimental' or appropriated the myths and art of Native Americans. In this collection of essays, Udall explores the work of some of he painters who have found stimulus in the ideas, people, and myths of the Southwest, among them Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Page Allen, and Woody Gwyn.

Contested Terrain: Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art

The Southwest has long beckoned the artist. But too often, art made by Euro-Americans drawn to this region has either "basked in the sunny celebration of the picturesque, the exotic, and the sentimental" or appropriated the myths and art of Native Americans. In this collection of essays, Sharyn R. Udall explores the work of some of the painters who have found stimulus in the ideas, people, and myths of the Southwest, among them Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Page Allen, and Woody Gwyn. They saw the Southwest in new ways, drawing inspiration from the very light and topography of the region. Udall's goal is to open and enlarge the discussion by rejecting the "neat, circumscribed way of seeing" common to traditional art history. Thus, she declares, one is able to encourage a fresh look at these painters and their work, and at the larger relationships of nature and culture in the Southwest.

O'Keeffe and Texas

This is a study of the formative period in the career of the American abstract artist, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986). The colour reproductions in the book, which was published to accompany an exhibition held at the Marion Koogler MacNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, in the spring of 1998, present powerful images made in Texas between 1912 and 1918 - all of them different from the flowers and animal bones normally associated with O'Keeffe's work. The author sets out to show how the powerful light and stark landscape of Texas resonate throughout the paintings, and offers an examination of how the themes developed by the artist in Texas continued to affect her artistic vision over the next half-century.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

McNay Art Museum

The catalog of an exhibition of paintings produced in New Mexico in the early twentieth century includes a discussion of how and why the area attracted artists and brief biographies of the painters

Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942: July 17-August 8, 1987, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Gerald Peters Gallery

Sunstone Press

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Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own

Dance: American Art, 1830-1960

Modernist Painting in New Mexico, 1913-1935

Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse

Contested Terrain: Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art

Contested Terrain: Myth and Meanings in Southwest Art

O'Keeffe and Texas

Santa Fe Art Colony, 1900-1942: July 17-August 8, 1987, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Spud Johnson & Laughing Horse