Romance. Longing. Art. Georgia. Alfred.

"Mabel's place beats anything you can imagine about it — it is simply astonishing," O'Keeffe writes. "... The drive up here — seventy-five miles — was wonderful — It is bedtime and I am not a bit sleepy — not even tired — I lay in the sun a long time this afternoon — the air is cold and the wind — but the sun is hot — "

Alfred Stieglitz attached this photograph to a letter for Georgia O'Keeffe, dated July 10, 1929. Below the photograph he wrote, "I have destroyed 300 prints to-day. And much more literature. I haven't the heart to destroy this..."

What was the relationship like between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz? A new book published by Yale University Press gives you a glimpse. It is entitled My Faraway One: selected letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, and it is available at the public library [Library catalog].

Read more about the book at NPR.org.

Happy Birthday Georgia!

Black Mesa Landscape, NM. 1930. SFMOMA

Georgia O’Keeffe was born on this day in 1887, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. You can view hundreds of stunning images from the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum over at ArtStor: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/okeeffe

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Or, visit the museum's website here: http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/okeeffe.html