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Above Georgia OKeeffe hands by Alfred Stieglitz 1918. Opposite clockwise from top Wave Night 1928 by Georgia OKeeffe 18871986 oil on canvas 30 x 36 in. 76.2 x 91.44 cm which hangs in the Addison Gallery at Philips Andover Academy Abstraction Seaweed and Water-Maine 1920 and Red Hill and White Shell 1938. Made in Maine 52 p o r t l a n d monthly magazine CloCkwisefromleftAlfredstieglitzAddisongAlleryofAmeriCAnArtPhiliPsAndoverACAdemygeorgiAokeeffemuseumgeorgiAokeeffe.net Georgia OKeeffe Maine Artist Georgia OKeeffes extraordinary York Beach paintings spanning 1922-1928 are part of her tumultuous love affair with life. BY COlin W. SarGent T hesenseofMadeinMaineshapeshiftsinfrontofour eyes.ButGeorgiaOKeeffeaMainepainter All you have to do is look at her 1928 paint- ing Wave Night to feel it. Between 1920 and 1928 OKeeffe vacationed at a seaside guest house on Long Sands Beach in York for inspiration. It was here in Maine during torrid separations from her lovermentor Alfred Stieglitz that she not only painted Wave Night but also first experienced the breakthrough that led her to paint sea shells with their curves and involutions distances and intimacies. Vividly her letters from York Beach to Stieglitz appear in the book My Faraway One Selected Letters of Georgia OKeeffe and Alfred Stieglitz Volume One 1915-1933 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Theyre deeply personal and take us straight to her creative essence. As Herv Fornieri yes the French performer writes in his Amazon review of the col- lection The two most amazing letters in this book demon- strate the almost supernatural synchronicity between these two lovers and artists. The letters were written by OKeeffe and Stieglitz on the same day September 25 1923 while she was vis- iting York Beach Maine and he was staying at their summer homeatLakeGeorgeNewYorktwohundredmilesaway.Unbe- knownst to the other of course each had been utterly entranced by the same moonlit nightbut OKeeffe saw a colorful painting and Stieglitz saw a black-and-white photograph. OKeeffe Last eveningwalking on the beach at sunset I saw a pink moonnearly fullgrow out of the gray over the green seatill it made a pink streak on the watervery faint that told you where the ocean began and the soft gray blur of space was endedAnd the moon grew hotter and hotterand the path on the water brighter and brighter till it burned so that I didnt want to look anymore Stieglitz It was a marvelous night. A white moonlight night. I never saw any night quite like itnone more beautiful For a long while before going to bed I stood at your window looking lakewardlooking at the white silencesthe white