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Georgia O’Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer’s friendship takes center stage in new book

West Stockbridge author Liza Bennett used a half century of letters between seminal artist Georgia O'Keeffe and suffragist Anita Pollitzer for her new book "Georgia & Anita," detailing their parallel lives and friendship.

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — In a lonesome room at Columbia College, Georgia O’Keeffe knelt on the floor over a bed of loose papers, her fingers black with charcoal as she unlearned everything she knew. It was Christmas break, 1915. This is an episode from O’Keeffe’s early life — before her name became synonymous with some of the most iconic paintings of the 20th century — during a teaching stint at the then-women’s college in South Carolina.

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