[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default” locked=”off”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/yuyimorales.com\/catalogue\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/georgia-245×300.jpg” alt=”Bright Star” title_text=”Georgia in Hawaii” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default” box_shadow_style=”preset3″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”]<\/p>\n
by<\/strong> Amy Novesky <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||”]<\/p>\n Georgia O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s Hawaiian tour celebrates natural beauty and powerful artistic convictions<\/span><\/p>\n Georgia O\u2019Keeffe was famous for painting exactly what she wanted, whether flowers or skulls. Who would ever dare to tell her what to paint? The Hawaiian Pineapple Company tried. Luckily for them, Georgia fell in love with Hawaii. There she painted the beloved green islands, vibrant flowers, feathered fishhooks, and the blue, blue sea. But did she paint what the pineapple company wanted most of all? Amy Novesky\u2019s lyrical telling of this little-known story and Yuyi Morales\u2019s gorgeous paintings perfectly capture Georgia\u2019s strong artistic spirit.\u00a0<\/span>The book includes an author\u2019s note, illustrator\u2019s note, bibliography, map of the islands, and endpapers that identify Georgia\u2019s favorite Hawaiian flowers.<\/i><\/p>\n .<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”5px||4px|||” locked=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”64px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”top” animation_intensity_slide=”5%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” header_2_font_size_tablet=”40px” header_2_font_size_phone=”” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” inline_fonts=”Abhaya Libre”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”10px||5px|||”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bHSmywnjldU” _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_video_slider _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_video_slider][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RVsUiGHF2fI” _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_video][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”|auto|-7px|auto||” custom_padding=”||8px|||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ text_font=”||||||||” header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Abhaya Libre|700|||||||” header_2_font_size=”64px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”|||” custom_padding=”0px||0px|||” animation_style=”slide” animation_direction=”top” animation_intensity_slide=”5%” animation_starting_opacity=”100%” header_2_font_size_tablet=”40px” header_2_font_size_phone=”” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” inline_fonts=”Abhaya Libre”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”8px||3px|||”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.1″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1px|||”]<\/p>\n \u2605 “<\/span>While most people associate Georgia O\u2019Keeffe with the landscape of the American Southwest, this picture book explores the time she spent in Hawaii. Commissioned by the Hawaiian Pineapple Company to paint two works that \u201cpromote the delights of pineapple juice,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe quickly struck out on her own, traveling throughout the Hawaiian islands. \u201cShe painted a nana honua that she\u2019d picked by the side of the road. It reminded Georgia of her favorite desert flower, the jimsonweed.\u201d Morales\u2019s milky acrylic and digital artwork positions the spirited artist against the glowing colors of Hawaii\u2019s lush tropics. O\u2019Keeffe had created more than a dozen paintings by the time she returned home to New York City\u2014but none of them are of a pineapple, so \u201cThey were not happy. They wanted a pineapple! Georgia was not happy either. She was not going to be told what to paint.\u201d A rich and unexpected depiction of a treasured artist. Agent: Caryn Wiseman, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Illustrator\u2019s agent: Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency. Ages 6\u20139. (Feb.)—Publishers Weekly<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u2605 <\/span>“An appealing and slightly humorous portrayal of O’Keefe’s artistic vision and determination, along with a peek at the Hawaii of over half a century ago…accessible, unfussy and visually charming.”–Kirkus<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2605 <\/span>“A rich and unexpected depiction of a treasured artist.”–Publishers Weekly, starred review \u2605 <\/span>K-Gr 4\u2014O’Keeffe spent three months touring Hawaii in 1939 as a guest of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (which later became Dole). In return, she was to produce two paintings to promote her sponsor’s juice. The trouble started when the company refused the artist’s request to live near the fields (only laborers did that), instead presenting her with a pineapple to reproduce. How the two sides moved from offending one another to reconciliation is the central conflict in this lush, carefully researched book. Novesky’s selection of salient details of the relationship and the journey allows the text to be brief while providing fascinating tidbits for readers and a fertile ground for Morales’s imaginative acrylic and digital compositions, many of which were inspired by O’Keeffe’s abstract art as well as her famous flowers, skyscrapers, and streetlights. Cool, green rainforest settings contrast with brilliant, fuchsia skies in which the protagonist is framed by larger-than-life philodendron, hibiscus, and plumeria. Flowers are identified on the endpapers. Photographs of the commissions would have been helpful, but author and illustrator notes are provided. This title fits beautifully between a portrait of the artist as a young woman in Jen Bryant’s Georgia’s Bones (Eerdmans, 2005) and as an older one in Kathryn Lasky’s Georgia Rises (Farrar, 2009).\u2014Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library, School Library Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2605 <\/span>An appealing and slightly humorous portrayal of O’Keeffe’s artistic vision and determination, along with a peek at the Hawaii of over half a century ago. During her several-weeks sojourn in the Hawaii Territory in 1939, Georgia O’Keeffe painted some of her most lovely work. Though it was the Hawaiian (later Dole) Pineapple Company that underwrote her trip in exchange for a painting of a pineapple, O’Keeffe refused to paint the picked fruit the company offered. She did not actually paint a pineapple until she returned to New York, and readers may be able to find her pineapple painting hiding in the pages. But, as Novesky tells here, O’Keeffe discovered flowers, landscapes and Hawaiian feathered fishhooks that captured her artist’s eye. Morales’ luscious full-page illustrations–digitally assembled edge-to-edge acrylic paintings–seem to glow softly in scenes filled with rich colors and that create an intimate relationship between the figure of Georgia and her surroundings. Labeled illustrations of nine different Hawaiian blossoms cover the endpapers. In one striking spread, a canvas close up shows Georgia’s just-painted waterfall, with a feathered lure and a shell hanging from the corners, while just beyond Georgia, a striking black lava formation reaches into the ocean. Morales captures Georgia’s intelligent and occasionally formidable look; she also captures what O’Keeffe saw, gracefully echoing, not reproducing, O’Keeffe’s work. Accessible, unfussy and visually charming. 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Illustrator<\/strong>\u00a0Yuyi Morales\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
Published by<\/strong> Harcourt Children\u2019s Books<\/span>
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