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Editorial Director for Trade and Academic at Yale University Press London
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19 days ago
We are incredibly sad to learn of the death of John Carey, whose last three books we were proud to publish at Yale. One of our greatest literary critics, John was a strong advocate for poetry and making it accessible. He was diligent and superb at what he did, but always with a sense of fun.
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Thanks for this lovely tribute to the great John Carey, he meant so much to so many of us.
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Alice Hunt
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www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
A lovely tribute to the brilliant John Carey, whose work I return to again and again and again.
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John Carey obituary: literary critic
Witty, eclectic and sometimes scathing scholar and reviewer who held sacred cows in little respect, dies aged 91
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/john-carey-obituary-literary-critic-mxjvmfxml
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Margot Finn
24 days ago
The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar resumes on 14 January 2026, in person at the Institute of Historical Research and online via Zoom. (Kate Gibson, speaking on Fostering in 18th-century Britain). Access next term's programme here. All welcome: free and open to the public.
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British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
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C20 Society
30 days ago
⚠️ Stand-off in Sheringham: Local campaigners have spent the past three nights camping out overnight in an extraordinary bid to save a 1950s Streamline Moderne style bus shelter in Norfolk, thwarting council contractors who attempted to demolish the structure at 2am.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jo Godfrey
about 1 month ago
There’s just one week of our
@yalebooks.bsky.social
half price sale left - must end 30th November!
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‘Brilliant… A kind of shadow biography of Shakespeare from the bottom up’ - Wonderful review of Daniel Swift’s superb The Dream Factory
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/b...
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Shakespeare Becoming Shakespeare, With Help From His Working-Class Peers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/books/review/dream-factory-daniel-swift.html
about 1 month ago
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Yale University Press London 📖
about 1 month ago
There is still time to get your ticket for Mike Jay's talk tonight 👇
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Yale University Press London 📖
about 2 months ago
Get 50% off thousands of books with free UK postage! Use code FIFTY at checkout at:
yalebooks.co.uk/history
Only available from
yalebooks.co.uk
in Nov Includes all books except those priced £100+, preorders & books published after 31/10/25 Not available N/S America & Aus/NZ
#Skystorians
#history
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Edmond Smith
about 2 months ago
Thrilled to see Ruthless reviewed in the FT by Linda Colley, and to be placed among the FT's books of the week too! 😊
www.ft.com/content/67c1...
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Ruthless by Edmond Smith — the brutal rise of Britain’s industrial power
The historian’s splendid account sets out the ideas, inventions and relentless exploitation that drove the nation’s growth from 1660-1800
https://www.ft.com/content/67c1813b-87a4-42f1-9688-c355139b096f
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Wolfson History Prize
about 2 months ago
In the lead up to the
#WolfsonHistoryPrize
winner announcement next month, we are shining a light on each of the shortlisted books. This week, Sara Lodge's (
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
) 'The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective' takes the spotlight
@yalebooks.bsky.social
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Edmond Smith
2 months ago
Looking forward to spending an evening with the brilliant Jake Subryan Richards on 11 November at Waterstones on Gower Street to talk about our new books!
www.waterstones.com/events/ruthl...
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Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards to...
https://www.waterstones.com/events/ruthless-and-bonds-of-freedom-an-evening-with-edmond-smith-and-jake-subryan-richards/london-gower-street
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Yale University Press London 📖
2 months ago
Join
@edmond-smith.bsky.social
and Jake Richards discussing their books Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800 and The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade 6.30pm, 11th Nov, Waterstones Gower Street
www.waterstones.com/events/ruthl...
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Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Ruthless & Bonds of Freedom: An evening with Edmond Smith and Jake Subryan Richards to...
https://www.waterstones.com/events/ruthless-and-bonds-of-freedom-an-evening-with-edmond-smith-and-jake-subryan-richards/london-gower-street
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Coates is Odd This Day
3 months ago
It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance
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Yale University Press London 📖
3 months ago
In celebration of
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
’s book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective being shortlisted for the
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
2025, we’re revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books — with an extract from each.
yalebooks.co.uk/celebrating-...
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Celebrating the Wolfson Prize - Yale University Press London
In celebration of the announcement of the Wolfson Prize 2025 shortlist, we're revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books.
https://yalebooks.co.uk/celebrating-the-wolfson-prize/
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Yale University Press London 📖
3 months ago
Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025
#WolfsonHistoryPrize
, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize. The shortlist:
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
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Kate Teltscher
3 months ago
‘One of the most superbly beautiful of trees ... worth crossing the globe to see’. For more on thawka-gyi or 'Pride of Burma', see the latest issue of Plant Perspectives. Open access:
www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...
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Birmingham 81
3 months ago
The V&A East Storehouse is full of stunning surprises like this complete office that Frank Lloyd Wright created for Pittsburgh retail magnate Edgar J Kaufmann in 1935-1937 (THREAD)
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Edmond Smith
4 months ago
Thrilled to share early endorsements for
#Ruthless
! Huge thanks to
@sathnam.bsky.social
, Emma Griffin,
@antonhowes.bsky.social
, William Pettigrew, and Nicholas Radburn for their generous words.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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Colin Smith
4 months ago
Gourock Lido, Inverdale, Scotland, 2004, by Martin Parr, whose latest book - “Utterly Lazy And Inattentive” - is a wonder.
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Unseen Histories
4 months ago
As the 19th century opened, Britain faced an existential crisis. Just a short distance away Napoleon's army gathered on the Channel coast. The terror of that historical moment was very real – Andrew Lambert investigates how British politicians spent the next century ensuring it was never felt again👇
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How Britain Managed Europe from Waterloo to World War One - Unseen Histories
We speak to Andrew Lambert, the author of No More Napoleons, about the British foreign policy between Waterloo and World War One..
https://www.unseenhistories.com/no-more-napoleons-andrew-lambert-interview
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Laura Tisdall
7 months ago
On the blog today! Kicking off
#20booksofsummer
with two immersive novels about intense but non-sexual relationships. What are you reading this summer?
drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/2...
#booksky
#sff
#amreading
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20 Books of Summer, #1 and #2: Immaculate Conception and Cage of Starlight
Deep in the thick of marking, I wanted to kick off 20 Books of Summer with immersive, quick reads, and these two sophomore novels about intense but non-sexual bonds delivered. Ling Ling Huang’…
https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/20-books-of-summer-1-and-2-immaculate-conception-and-cage-of-starlight/
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Emma Butterworth Music
4 months ago
The fact that Shostakovich watched Jesus Christ Superstar (twice!) is something my brain just refuses to compute.
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Kate Teltscher
4 months ago
What is the most beautiful flowering tree in the world? Find out in my essay for Plant Perspectives, ed. by the wonderful Caroline Cornish and Christina Hourigan. Also features a brilliant essay on ackee by Heather Craddock,
@planthums-uk.bsky.social
@treeseeker.bsky.social
@hcraddock.bsky.social
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W. W. Norton & Company
4 months ago
Remembering Starling Lawrence (1943 - 2025), legendary editor of David Ignatius, Sebastian Junger, and Michael Lewis.
wwnorton.com/remembering-...
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Michael Marshall
5 months ago
My debut for @aeon.co: Life formed incredibly early in Earth's history, so the idea that our world was once an unliveable hellscape is just not true.
https://aeon.co/essays/life-on-earth-emerged-fast-far-quicker-than-we-thought
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Erica Wagner
5 months ago
This is a really fine, interesting piece on what it means to be “a writer”, among other things.
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Neil Denny
5 months ago
On today's new Little Atoms podcast,
@mikejay.bsky.social
on his latest book Free Radicals. Out now from
@yalebooks.bsky.social
. Listen to it wherever you get your podcasts or here:
shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-751...
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Little Atoms 962 - Mike Jay's Free Radicals | Little Atoms
A Podcast about Ideas and Culture
https://shows.acast.com/b5fe8d16-7518-4208-861b-e1ec5ce88192/68823a9de0a86cc3abb1a2a3
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Caroline Sharples
6 months ago
Delighted to see my forthcoming book - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - is now available for preorder...
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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The Long Death of Adolf Hitler - Yale University Press London
A fascinating exploration of why Hitler’s death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficie...
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300284911/the-long-death-of-adolf-hitler/
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Mike Jay
7 months ago
Discussing FREE RADICALS at a launch event in Bath on Thursday 26th
www.brlsi.org/whatson/free...
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Free Radicals! Thomas Beddoes, Humphrey Davy and the Pneumatic Institute of Bristol – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
At the very end of eighteenth century, the distinguished Oxford chemist Dr Thomas Beddoes founded a new private medical research clinic, The Pneumatic Institute, where together with his brilliant assi...
https://www.brlsi.org/whatson/free-radicals-thomas-beddoes-humphrey-davy-and-the-pneumatic-institute-of-bristol
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Eamonn O’Keeffe
7 months ago
Pleased to have received a preview copy of Andrew Lambert’s latest. A rewarding read so far. No More Napoleons will be published by Yale University Press later this month.
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Kate Teltscher
7 months ago
Just writing a paper about this pair, Thomas Dawodu and Ferdinand Leigh, the first Africans to train at Kew Gardens. Come hear their remarkable story at Gardens & Empires conference, British Library, June 27-8, & online:
events.bl.uk/events/garde...
@sathnam.bsky.social
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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Yale University Press London 📖
7 months ago
Inspired by British Summer Time... we have a selection of lovely books at 40% off. See page for titles included and sales restrictions.
yalebooks.co.uk/summertime20...
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ianVisits
7 months ago
If you want 15 minutes of pure joy bouncing big white balloons around an old church, then you’re in luck.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/the...
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There’s a balloon-filled church in Camden at the moment for you play in
If you want 15 minutes of pure joy bouncing big white balloons around an old church, then you’re in luck.
https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/theres-a-balloon-filled-church-in-camden-at-the-moment-for-you-play-in-81391/
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Yale University Press London 📖
8 months ago
Every Reason to Celebrate To commemorate
#VEDay80
, Marc Milner writes an exclusive post on Britain’s role in the Second World War. Read more:
yalebooks.co.uk/every-reason...
#WW2
#VEDay
#veday80thanniversary
#VEDay2025
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Every Reason to Celebrate - Yale University Press London
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Marc Milner, author of Second Front: Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign,
https://yalebooks.co.uk/every-reason-to-celebrate/
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The Spectator
8 months ago
On this week's Book Club podcast Daniel Swift new book, The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare, tells the fascinating story of a theatrical innovation that transformed Elizabethan drama.
buff.ly/hB3B2T1
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Daniel Swift: The Making of William Shakespeare
My guest in this week’s Book Club podcast is Daniel Swift. Daniel’s new book, The Dream Factory: London’s First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare, tells the fascinating story of a…
https://buff.ly/hB3B2T1
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Snezana Lawrence
8 months ago
Tomorrow, at Heffers bookshop in Cambridge (UK) I'll be doing a talk about my "A Little History of Mathematics" - if you are nearby, come and join me and Cambridge friends!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-little-h...
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A Little History of Mathematics - Snezana Lawrence, at Heffers Bookshop
Join Snezana Lawrence as she discusses her new, accessible history of Mathematics on the evening of the 29th of April at Heffers Bookshop.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-little-history-of-mathematics-snezana-lawrence-at-heffers-bookshop-tickets-1249304807309
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Kit de Waal
8 months ago
My sister has a hatred of these kind of signs. I collect them and send them to her. If you would like to add to my glee, send me your favourite:)
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Yale University Press London 📖
8 months ago
Built in 1576 in a field in Shoreditch, the Theatre was London's first purpose-built playhouse and
#Shakespeare's
first theatre. This timeline, from Daniel Swift’s book The Dream Factory charts the Theatre’s history:
yalebooks.co.uk/shakespeares...
#ShakespeareDay
#shakespearebirthday
#TheatreSky
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Shakespeare's First Theatre: A Timeline - Yale University Press London
In 1576, in a muddy field in Shoreditch, James Burbage erected London’s first purpose-built commercial playhouse. A place of high culture and quick
https://yalebooks.co.uk/shakespeares-first-theatre-a-timeline/
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Yale University Press
9 months ago
@wsj.com
reviews Sarah Lodge’s The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective: read the book "to know more about the forerunners of women in crime fiction"
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‘The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective’ Review: Quarry Women
The “lady detectives” of the stage prepared audiences for the real women who would join police forces and investigative agencies.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-mysterious-case-of-the-victorian-female-detective-review-quarry-women-498f94ab
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Shakespeare Resource Center
9 months ago
Shakespeare was ‘apprentice’ at London’s first theater before becoming a famous playwright, new book argues
buff.ly/ghpR1PR
Daniel Swift, associate professor of English at Northeastern University in London, looks at
#Shakespeare’s
experience at The Theatre in his book “The Dream Factory.”
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Steve Cook
9 months ago
There are a select few historians that even before seeing their talk/lecture you just know it's going to be exceptional. Marc Milner is one of them! This is going to be excellent
@ww2tv.bsky.social
#WeHaveWays
#WarWaffle
youtube.com/live/K2EHqJo...
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Second Front Anglo-American Rivalry and the Hidden Story of the Normandy Campaign
YouTube video by WW2TV
https://youtube.com/live/K2EHqJoiOfg?si=1GzY2foYsHId-ohP
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Nigel Warburton
9 months ago
The new design Little Histories are out in the wild
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Yale University Press London 📖
10 months ago
Our bestselling Little Histories series is getting a new look! The colourful paperbacks and elegant new hardbacks are coming to all good booksellers very soon... 🇬🇧 8 April 🇺🇸 13 May
@nigelwarburton.bsky.social
@snezanalawrence.bsky.social
Discover the series:
yalebooks.co.uk/little-histo...
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Mark Rothko
10 months ago
Slow Swirl at the Edge of the Sea
http://www.moma.org/collection/works/79691
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Yale University Press
10 months ago
“Simon Morrison has shed new light on the man he plausibly calls ‘Russia’s greatest composer,’ revealing a brilliant, complex, and even entertaining personality behind the music.”—The New Criterion reviews Tchaikovsky’s Empire
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“Music before melancholy,” by Robert Steven Mack
Robert Steven Mack on “Tchaikovsky’s Empire,” by Simon Morrison.
https://newcriterion.com/article/music-before-melancholy/
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Tom Reagan’s Hat
10 months ago
RIP Gene Hackman One of the best to ever do it. I thought I’d honour his very serious, smart & focused approach to the craft of acting by sharing this tremendously insightful interview with him about his process. A one of a kind.
www.filmcomment.com/article/inte...
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Yale University Press London 📖
10 months ago
Explore this collection on the history of Europe's cities featuring books by
@margarettel.bsky.social
,
@marekkohn.bsky.social
,
@profpanayi.bsky.social
,
@feargalc.bsky.social
and more. Shop this selection with 30% off until 31/3 on our website using code Y2503
yalebooksblog.co.uk/2025/02/26/t...
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The History of Europe's Cities: A Reading List - Yale University Press London Blog
Explore this collection of books on the history of Europe's cities. Shop this selection with 30% off by using the code Y2503 at checkout.
https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2025/02/26/the-history-of-europes-cities-a-reading-list/
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Spitalfields Life
10 months ago
Walter Donohue typing out edited script pages on set for Sally Potter's film ‘Orlando’ in St Petersburg, 1992. Join Walter's screenwriting course in Spitalfields on 5th & 6th April. Learn more here:
shorturl.at/sL4HL
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Journal of Art in Society
11 months ago
George Mobley’s image of a stylish, 92-yr-old Georgia O’Keeffe with her painting ‘Black Place III’. O’Keefe lived mainly in New Mexico, and its landscape inspired many of her works. After a long career, she was still doing pencil and charcoal sketches into her 90s
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