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In 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia OKeeffe, then ninety-six. Also an artist, Patten served as nurse, cook, companion, and friend to the older woman. This intimate account of the year of Pattens employment, first published in 1992 and now in paperback for the first time, offers a rare glimpse of OKeeffes daily life when she could no longer see well enough to paint.
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1992 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Second paperbound printing, 1999
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Patten, Christine Taylor, 1940 Miss O'Keeffe / Christine Taylor Patten and Alvaro Cardona-Hine.lst ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-8263-1322-1 (cloth) 0-8263-1961-0 (pbk.) 1. O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986. 2. PaintersUnited StatesBiography. I. Cardona-Hine, Alvaro. II. Title. ND237.05P37 1992 759.13dc20 [B] 91-22431 CIP
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To my friend, Jeanne Hughes Beley, who died too young, and whose illness, and my inability to take care of her, helped me to comprehend the privilege it is to take care of anyone. C.T.P.
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Acknowledgments
I give thanks to Philip L. Shultz, M.D., for his loving doctoring of injured eagles and other raptors; to Kay Harvey for extraordinary friendship; to Catherine and Lawrence Piersol for their propitious encouragement; to Carol Bly for her courageous words; to Tadeusz Debski for his wisdom; to Catherine Taylor Curtis for filling in the blanks with wit; to Barbara McCauley Cardona for her exuberance and energy; to Maggie Magee for her presence and serenity; to Dan Younger for making visual sense of my amateur photography; to Rob Silberman, for his brilliance; to my husband, Gendron Jensen, a gentle man; to my sons, Robert, Jonathan, Matthew, and Michael Powell, nurturing men who keep reminding me how to love; and to my friend Carol Sarkisian and all the other women who cared for Georgia O'Keeffe.
C.T.P.
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previous books by Alvaro Cardona-Hine:
Romance de Agapito Cascante The Gathering Wave The Flesh of Utopia Menashtash Agapito Spain, Let This Cup Pass from Me [translation of Cesar Vallejo's book, Espaa, Aparta de Mi Este Caliz] Words on Paper Two Elegies The Half-Eaten Angel When I Was a Father
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Preface
This book is a recollection and an examination. In part it is a portrait of a woman who gave America and the world a way of seeing through a woman's eyes, a portrait of that woman as she was at age ninety-six, too blind to work, weak enough to need assistance, lonely and confused. She found the companion she needed in Christine Taylor Patten for the year they were together. The book is also, inevitably, a portrait of Christine.
I met Christine in 1987, and one evening at her studio, talking about this and that over dinner, she spoke of having been one of Georgia O'Keeffe's companionsor nurses, as they were called. The matter came up round-about and she was very reticent about going into much detail. It was at my urging that she told me how she had cared for the famous woman for almost a year, beginning in 1983. How fascinating, I re-
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member thinking: a female artist taking care of another one. Assuming that Christine had a great deal to tell about O'Keeffe's opinions and ideas on art, I kept firing question after question at her. To my surprise, it was the human story that grew larger than life, full of warmly remembered detail and love for the nonagenarian.
A problem emerged almost from the beginning: Christine's reticence. This reticence was due to her natural instinct to protect O'Keeffe from mere curiosity and because, as I was to find out, she knew so much about what had transpired during those days when O'Keeffe was finally transferred from her beloved Abiquiu house to a noise-ridden mansion in Santa Fe. It had not taken her long to become attached to O'Keeffe, to discover the real woman behind the myths as prevalent then as now, and to learn to serve her. She had to deal with the real Juan Hamilton, and observed his volatile ways, so she had formed the prudent habit of keeping the story of her days with O'Keeffe much to herself.
That night, on my way home, I thought the world needed to know the story, and I made up my mind to approach Christine as soon as possible with the suggestion that we write an account of it in a collaborative fashion. She would write down everything she remembered, or put it down on tape, and I would transcribe
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the material, write the account of it and present it to a publisher.
For me, it has been a privilege to listen to Christine and record her story. It is her story. I quickly discovered that she wrote with an eloquent sense of style. It dawned on me early that I could not drown this voice in an attempt to turn out a standard biographical piece.
From the first, when I did talk to Christine, she insisted that such a book, if at all conceivable, would have to leave aside all manner of things about O'Keeffe she deemed too personal, and anything damaging to those still living. It could not be an expos or dwell on sensationalism. Regarding Hamilton, she was most explicit; she wanted nothing in the book beyond material necessary to round out the story. I am in complete agreement with this.
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