Equal Under the Sky

Linda M. Grasso is a professor of English at York College and of liberal studies at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. She is the author of The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860.

In this engaging and provocative study, Linda M. Grasso positions Georgia O'Keeffe's identity and art making, her lived experiences and social/political allegiances, within the larger historical context of contested feminist politics in twentieth-century America. Combining a deeply researched discussion of the complexities of feminist movements in the US with biographical information drawn from an impressive array of primary sources, Grasso opens new possibilities for understanding and evaluating O'Keeffe's continuing but conflicted relationship with varied aspects of American feminist experience."" - Helen Langa, author of Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York""Offers a fresh look at Georgia O'Keeffe and the multiple ways that feminism shaped her art, artistic identity, and career. Drawing from rich primary sources, including fan letters to O'Keeffe and media coverage of the artist, Linda M. Grasso demythologizes O'Keeffe's self-representation as a gender-transcendent great American modernist and gives us a picture of O'Keeffe's art as political and intricately connected to the feminist movements that shaped modernism and twentieth-century American culture."" - Donna Cassidy, author of Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation