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.