O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters

Join Amy Von Lintel, for a lecture on her most recent book, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters, which explores a time in O’Keeffe’s life when she was developing her future identity.

In 1912, at the age of 24, O’Keeffe boarded a train and headed west, to the Texas Panhandle, to take a position as an art teacher, and returned to teach at the institution where Von Lintel now works between 1916 and 1918. Von Lintel has brought together O’Keeffe’s correspondence written from Texas that features a wide variety of interesting aspects, from the artist’s own biography to her views on women and gender, on teaching, on WWI and, of course, on her art, which was highly influenced by the American West starting in this period.

Amy Von Lintel is the Doris Alexander Endowed Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts, Director of the Gender Studies Program and an Associate Professor of Art History at West Texas A&M University. Her areas of research include modern and contemporary art of the American West, women and gender, fakes and forgeries in art, and the history of art history. In addition to Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters, her publications include Georgia O’Keeffe: Watercolors 1916 – 1918, a co-authored book on Robert Smithson in Texas, and her forthcoming co-authored volume Expanding Abstract Expressionism: Women Artists in the Middle American West, along with numerous journal articles on her various research topics. Born and raised in the midwest, in Kansas City, she now lives in Amarillo, Texas with her brewer-meteorologist-enviro scientist husband, and their three children adopted out of the Texas foster system, along with her two dogs and a polydactyl cat.

This lecture was recorded February 16, 2021.