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PEOPLE & ARTS Tuesday 15 May 2018
Another O'Keeffe emerges for exhibit: Georgia's sister Ida

By JAMIE STENGLE Stieglitz.
DALLAS (AP) — The abstract Ida O'Keeffe, a profession-
painting of a lighthouse ally trained artist who got a
caught the eye of Dallas master's in fine arts from Co-
Museum of Art curator Sue lumbia University, squeezed
Canterbury as she visited in creating art and exhibit-
a private collector about ing it while working a se-
five years ago. Struggling ries of jobs that included
to identify the artist, she teaching art at schools and
walked up to the work and working as a nurse.
looked at the signature. "There were no saviors
"I was like everyone else is for Ida," Canterbury said.
to whom I speak about her "Accounts say Ida said to
now: 'Ida O'Keeffe?'" Georgia on more than one
Canterbury has spent occasion: 'I'd be famous,
the ensuing years track- too, if I'd have had a Stieg-
ing down the works of re- litz,' which drove Georgia
nowned artist Georgia nuts."
O'Keeffe's sister Ida Ten The sisters grew apart after
Eyck O'Keeffe. When the Georgia O’Keeffe, one of
exhibit "Ida O'Keeffe: Es- America’s most success-
caping Georgia's Shadow" ful artists by the mid-1920s,
opens on Nov. 18 at the didn’t support her sister’s
Dallas museum it will fea- artistic endeavors. “She
ture about 30 of her works, didn’t want anyone riding
and Canterbury still hopes on her name — the oth-
to find more, including the In this Thursday, April 12, 2018 photo, Sue Canterbury, a curator of American art at the Dallas Mu- er O’Keeffe sister — and
one painting from a series seum of Art talks about the Lighthouse series paintings by Ida O'Keeffe during an interview at the that’s the way all the deal-
of seven depicting a Cape DMA in Dallas. ers were positioning it,”
Cod lighthouse that she Canterbury said.
hasn't yet located. in touch with Canterbury kept them with her until her O'Keeffe died in 1984, Ida Barbara Buhler Lynes, a
"It's been really difficult after seeing information death in 1961 at the age of O'Keeffe's works began to leading Georgia O’Keeffe
and there are works that I about her quest online. He 71. Canterbury believes the trickle out into the public. scholar and former curator
have really great pictures had one of the lighthouse one lighthouse painting she One notable difference of the Georgia O’Keeffe
of them, but they've dis- paintings, which he had hasn't been able to find — between Georgia and Ida Museum in Santa Fe, New
appeared into collections bought some 25 years ago the first and most realistic O'Keeffe was the time they Mexico, said Georgia
somewhere and not even at a Los Angeles-area flea of the abstract series — is were able to spend fo- O’Keeffe discouraged oth-
dealers can help me find market. "It was beautiful probably in California. cused on their art. Georgia er family members from try-
where they are," Canter- and well done," Lane said, After Ida O'Keeffe died in benefited from the support ing to become artists.
bury said. adding, "It has substance. It Whittier, near Los Angeles, of the man who eventually “It was very difficult for a
Serendipity has played a wasn't just an amateur." her artwork went to her sis- became her husband, the woman to be recognized
role in her search. Jew- Ida O'Keeffe painted the ter Claudia O'Keeffe, who acclaimed photographer as an important artist,” Ly-
elry designer Neil Lane got lighthouse series in 1933 and lived nearby. After Claudia and gallery owner Alfred nes said.q
Jennifer Castle is amid ghosts on 'Angels of Death'

By PABLO GORONDI radio and more. front him, either.
Associated Press The sounds are mix of coun- Other highlights include
Jennifer Castle, "Angels of try and folk with a dash of piano-led opener "Tomor-
Death" (Paradise of Bach- pop, reflective but with a row's Mourning" and the
elors) dynamic that shields even Cowboy Junkies-like title
There are excellent records the sadder passages from track, as well as the stun-
about death, dying, grief too much darkness. ning "Crying Shame," which
and goodbyes — from Neil "Texas" is about visiting a John Lennon might have
Young's "Tonight's the Night" dying grandmother whose written during his Plastic
and David Bowie's "Black- eyes remind the protago- Ono Band days for Roy Or-
star" to The Antlers' "Hos- nist of her own dead father. bison.
pice" and Gord Downie's She wants to reach him Near the end, "Tonight the
"Introduce Yerself." Jennifer through her tune but she's Evening" tries to find mes-
Castle's "Angels of Death" also got something more sages from beyond on the
is an ethereal, deeply po- worldly in mind — "Send a radio dial and its extended
etic take on the subject lover/up to my bedroom coda, a bit like Joni Mitch-
— nimble, sure-footed and when you can." ell's "Dreamland," includes
beautifully written and per- "Grim Reaper" is prefaced a string section that helps
formed. by a long silence and a it develop into a hypnotic
On Castle's third record un- gradual buildup of sound. swirl. Amid the ghosts, Cas-
der her own name — she Even though Castle sings tle's sublime songs, crystal-
used to go by Castlemusic "It's not that I'm afraid at line voice and the integrity
— death appears as or is night/To meet the one who of her delivery carry "An- This cover image released by Paradise of Bachelors shows "An-
connected to song, muses, hold the scythe," it's seems gels of Death" to the bright- gels of Death," a new release by Jennifer Castle.
angels, messages on the she's not in any rush to con- er side of life.q