I watched the premiere of a 2-hour movie about American artist Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) that airs again on Lifetime tomorrow night. Like the reviewers, I had some issues with it, but it is worth watching. The film prompted me to have another look at her skull paintings and to see what she said about bones:
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In the process, I found the portraits above in which O'Keeffe is depicted with vertebrae and skulls. None of these was taken by her husband, American photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). The 1st was taken by Philippe Hausman in 1967, the 2nd by John Candelario in 1942, and the 3rd by Arnold Newman in 1968.
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