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(More customer reviews)Art in the middle of the 20th century tended to focus on a few mega talents, such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack. Yet there remians one artist who only lately received the recognition she deserves - Gina Knee, a woman who struggled mightily to balance her responsibilities as a wife and homemaker and her need for artistic expression. In large part, this book is a chronicle of that struggle.
Used to an affluent lifestyle in Santa Fe with servants to accomplish the mundane tasks and respond to her bidding, Gina Knee was forced to reassess her priorities when she found herself in wartime Los Angeles with no household help, which robbed her of free hours to create.
At that time, her husband's involvement in the war was important and meaningful to him. On the other hand, in 1943 she wrote to a friend and gallery owner who was planning an exhibit of her, "I am afraid that I resent to labor part of my days because Ernie is so happy and enthusiastic and content in his.....He was so desperate in Santa Fe and I was strong..."
During a fifty year career the artist worked in various locales - the southwest, the South, California, and New York. Her work was acquired by both public and private collectors.
Art historian Udall tells Gina Knee's story well, offering insights for art students as well as photographs and reproductions of the artist's work.
- Gail Cooke
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