Georgia A Novel of Georgia O'Keeffe Author:Dawn Tripp Georgia O?Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist come vividly to life in this sensual and wonderfully written novel, a dazzling departure into historical fiction by the acclaimed novelist Dawn Tripp. — — This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he ... more »has his, and I have mine.
In 1916, Georgia O?Keeffe is a young, unknown art teacher when she travels to New York to meet Stieglitz, the famed photographer and art dealer, who has discovered O?Keeffe?s work and exhibits it in his gallery. Their connection is instantaneous. O?Keeffe is quickly drawn into Stieglitz?s sophisticated world, becoming his mistress, protégé, and muse, as their attraction deepens into an intense and tempestuous relationship and his photographs of her, both clothed and nude, create a sensation.
Yet as her own creative force develops, Georgia begins to push back against what critics and others are saying about her and her art. And soon she must make difficult choices to live a life she believes in.
A breathtaking work of the imagination, Georgia is the story of a passionate young woman, her search for love and artistic freedom, and the sacrifices she endures that will make her a legend.
Advance praise for Georgia
?I devoured this dazzling portrait of an American icon. Dawn Tripp brings Georgia O?Keeffe so fully to life on every page and, with great wisdom, examines the very nature of love, longing, femininity, and art.??J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Maine and The Engagements
?Georgia is a dazzling, brilliant work about the struggle between artist and woman, between self and the other, between love and the necessity to break free of it. The luminous sensuality of the writing glows from every page, drawing the reader into the splendor and machinations of the New York City art world between the wars, revealing both Georgia O?Keeffe and Dawn Tripp as the great artists they are.??B. A. Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of The Art Forger and The Muralist
?Georgia O?Keeffe?s life became legendary even as she was living it, something she both invited and fought against. This is the fascinating tension at the heart of Dawn Tripp?s novel?a book that, like O?Keeffe?s paintings, is lush and rigorous, bold and subtle, sensual, cranky, deeply felt, and richly imagined.??Joan Wickersham, author of The News from Spain« less