Hunter Drohojowska-Philp will discuss her new biography, In Full Bloom: The Life and Art of Georgia O’Keeffe, at a luncheon on Thursday, October 14 at noon in the Hampton Room of Malott Commons at Scripps College. Reservations are required for the lunch and the cost is $15 per person. Seats will be available for those who wish only to attend the lecture, which is free and open to the public. Drohojowska- Philp will be available for a book signing following the lecture. Books will be available for sale. Please call Malott Commons Office, (909)607-9372, for lunch reservations and information.
In her new book, Drohojowska- Philp explores the woman behind the legend, carefully revealing the life of O’Keeffe through her work, letters, and dozens of interviews with her closest friends. Drohojowska- Philp’s book investigates O’Keeffe’s passionate relationship with Alfred Stieglitz and recounts the artist’s eventual relocation to New Mexico and the evolution of her signature paintings.
O’Keeffe was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. Her enormous, intimately rendered paintings of flowers, stark Southwestern landscapes, and hauntingly beautiful found objects are unmistakable. Despite her near mythic status, O’Keeffe has remained, in ways, undiscovered. Drohojowska-Philp carefully reveals the artist whose legendary reputation and carefully self-made image served well to obscure her personal privations from view.
Drohojowska-Philp is a journalist and art critic specializing in the topics of art, design, and architecture. She is a long-time contributor to ARTnews and ARTnet and regular contributor to Los Angeles Times. Drohojowska-Philp also writes for Architecture Digest, Metropolitan Home, and Western Interiors and Design. In addition to a long career in journalism, Drohojowska-Philp was chair of liberal arts at Otis College of Art and Design for nine years. She is listed in Who’s Who and is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, Art Table and The Authors Guild.