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January 3, 2012

Pen Pals: Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz

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"I handled pieces of Jade—They told me it was Jade —I would not have thought what it might be —I only knew that the surfaces were fine and smooth and cold…"

The art historian Sarah Greenough, who has assumed the daunting task of editing O’Keeffe’s correspondence, notes that between their first contact around 1915—when precisely they first met remains uncertain—and Stieglitz’s death in 1946, they exchanged more than 25,000 pages of letters. == The Far-Apart Artists by Christopher Benfey | The New York Review of Books

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 3, 2012 5:47 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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