Georgia O’Keeffe was disappointed in her painter sister Ida O’Keeffe. “A wasted life,” she told the family when Ida died in 1961, at 71. The Dallas Museum of Art will tell Ida’s side of the story with an exhibition scheduled for 2017, “Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow.”
Ida was the third of the seven O’Keeffe siblings. They grew up amid the gloom of their mother’s terminal tuberculosis. Another sister, Catherine, also became an artist. The three occasionally exhibited paintings together, but artworks by Georgia captured the most praise, partly thanks to the knack her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, had for publicizing her.
“Georgia remains supreme,” a newspaper critic wrote in 1933.
