Georgia O’Keeffe’s early letters to Alfred Stieglitz (1916–1917) reveal her fierce independence, her longing for solitude, and her refusal to conform. In this episode of One Sealed Letter, we explore how her words illuminate the artist’s path – and why, as I step into life as a full-time artist myself, her voice feels like the perfect guide.

References:

• Sarah Greenough and Nicholas Cullinan, My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, Volume One, 1915–1933 (Yale University Press, 2011).

• Roxana Robinson, Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life (University Press of New England, 1989).

• Amy Von Lintel, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Wartime Texas Letters (Texas A&M University Press, 2020).

• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University: “The Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.”