FW: I hate flowers.
I think Barbara’s comments about this quote are very relevant. (see below)
I just thought the quote was funny, especially when we see so many visitors who love and gush over Georgia O’Keeffe’s flower paintings.
I saw the quote on a website (flickr to be precise), and just thought it was funny and that you, as docents, would also find it funny and interesting. I did research the quote a little bit on the internet, but was unable to put it in context or find any source for it. I found the quote on www.brainyquote.com, and that website doesn’t give any reference to where the quote came from originally.
Anyway, I don’t want to misrepresent Georgia O’Keeffe as a flower-hater. I know several of you have ready biographies of her (and I haven’t), and probably have a better idea of how it was meant.
Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
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From: Barbara Abegg [mailto:babegg1@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:55 PM
To: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Subject: RE: I hate flowers.
Heidi--
This quote must have been tongue-in-cheek. I have just finished reading a 500-page biography on O'Keeffe and read that she loved flowers and all natural life. Whether they have all the sexual connotations that many see in them is a debatable issue. Georgia denied that they did; however, she loved playing the devil's advocate at times,especially to some people she may have disapproved of.
Barbara
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From: Heide Fernandez-Llamazares [mailto:HLlamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:24 PM
Subject: I hate flowers.An interesting Georgia O’Keeffe quotation…
“I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.”
Georgia O’Keeffe quote
Heide Fernandez-Llamazares
Assistant Museum Educator and Docent Coordinator
hllamazares@TacomaArtMuseum.org
TACOMA ART MUSEUM
1701 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, Washington 98402
T: 253.272.4258 x3018
F: 253.627.1898
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