My Name Is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
by Jeanette Winter
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Author: Jeanette WinterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-01
ISBN: 015204597X
Number of pages: 48
Publisher: Sandpiper
Book Reviews of My Name Is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
Book Review: Art Teacher Review
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book to introduce Georgia O'Keefe to a group of students. The illustrations are lovely and the text is appropriate for elementary aged students. My students retained so much of the story that they were facinated when they could create flowers...big (like Georgia).
Summary of My Name Is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter
From the time she was a young girl, Georgia O'Keeffe saw the world in her own way.
At night she climbed a ladder to the starlit sky to await the sun. She walked in the hills at daybreak and in moonlight. She gathered bones and rocks, and brought them home to paint. And she always knew what was in her heart--to be an artist.
At night she climbed a ladder to the starlit sky to await the sun. She walked in the hills at daybreak and in moonlight. She gathered bones and rocks, and brought them home to paint. And she always knew what was in her heart--to be an artist.
"When I was twelve years old, I knew what I wanted--to be an artist." So begins My Name Is Georgia, Jeanette Winter's lovely picture-book portrait of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. It is a portrait of a strong-minded young girl who liked to play by herself, dress differently from her sisters, and let her black hair fly when others wore braids. And it is the portrait of an artist who lived to be 98 years old, letting the world see things as she saw them through her remarkable paintings. This small book--with sparse, carefully chosen prose--traces O'Keeffe's life through her schooling in Chicago and New York, and her first trek to Texas: "And I painted the sunset and the sky and the wonderful loneliness and emptiness of the place. I painted day and night." From there she experienced the "canyons of steel" of New York City, "where other artists lived," then it was off to the New Mexico desert. Winter does an exquisite job of reflecting an artist's creative life--how she wanted others to see flowers the way she saw them, how she painted them "BIG, so people would notice." The author's illustrations, perfect squares on white pages with the occasional cloud or bird drifting out of the lines, make this small, powerful tribute shine. (Ages 6 and older) --Karin Snelson
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