Flower Maiden:Sexual Interpretation in the Work of Georgia O'Keefe Analytical Essay by Top Papers

This paper is an exploration of the art criticism that focused on the early work of Georgia O'Keefe in the 20s and 30s. It looks at the way in which Alfred Stieglitz, in his desire to market her in a way that would bring her commercial success, inadvertantly confined her to being interpreted as a sex-obsessed painter whose work was was an expression of a distinctly female-oriented art that set her apart and below that of her male contemporaries.