NATIONAL BESTSELLER โข In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horanโs Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia OโKeeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist.
This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he has his, and I have mine.
In 1916, Georgia OโKeeffe is a young, unknown art teacher when she travels to New York to meet Stieglitz, the famed photographer and art dealer, who has discovered OโKeeffeโs work and exhibits it in his gallery. Their connection is instantaneous. OโKeeffe is quickly drawn into Stieglitzโs sophisticated world, becoming his mistress, protรฉgรฉ, 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, the sacrifices she will face, and the bold vision that will make her a legend.
Praise for Georgia
โComplex and original . . . Georgia conveys OโKeeffeโs joys and disappointments, rendering both the woman and the artist with keenness and consideration.โโThe New York Times Book Review
โAs magical and provocative as OโKeeffeโs lush paintings of flowers that upended the art world in the 1920s . . . Tripp inhabits Georgiaโs psyche so deeply that the reader can practically feel the paintbrush in hand as she creates her abstract paintings and New Mexico landscapes. . . . Evocative from the first page to the last, Trippโs Georgia is a romantic yet realistic exploration of the sacrifices one of the foremost artists of the twentieth century made for love.โโUSA Today
โSexually charged . . . insightful . . . Dawn Tripp humanizes an artist who is seen in biographies as more icon than woman. Her sensuous novel is as finely rendered as an OโKeeffe painting.โโThe Denver Post
โA vivid work forged from the actual events of OโKeeffeโs life . . . [Tripp] imbues the novel with a protagonist who forces the reader to consider the breadth of OโKeeffeโs talent, business savvy, courage and wanderlust. . . . [She] is vividly alive as she grapples with success, fame, integrity, love and family.โโSalon