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Georgia in Hawaii: When Georgia O'Keeffe Painted What She Pleased
32 pp.
| Harcourt |
February, 2012 |
TradeISBN 978-0-15-205420-5$16.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Yuyi Morales.
In 1939, O'Keeffe was commissioned by the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later Dole) to tour Hawaii and create promotional paintings of the exotic fruit. But she fell in love with other features of the islands--volcanoes, tropical flora, rare coral--and stubbornly wouldn't "be told what to paint." Novesky's lulling prose is matched by Morales's elegant, paradisiacal acrylics inspired by O'Keeffe's art. Reading list.