In this first volume (two are planned), Reily describes O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) early years and formative influences, how she defied the conventions of her time to become an artist, and what led her to
Painter Dorothy Brett traveled to Mexico with writer D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda in 1924. In this work, first published in 1933, she reminisces about the trip in vignettes addressed to the then-