![Black-and-white portrait of painter Ida O'Keeffe, younger sister of Georgia O'Keeffe]()
In 2013 Sue Canterbury was visiting the home of a Dallas art collector when she noticed a striking painting. The small canvas depicted a lighthouse composed of dozens of swooping, abstract blue, black, and gray segments, fragmented as though viewed through a kaleidoscope. Canterbury, a curator at the Dallas Museum of Art, didn’t recognize the piece. “I kept puzzling over who it could be, and then I finally walked over to look and saw the signature: ‘Ida O’Keeffe.’ ”Before that moment, Canterbury, like many in the art world, never knew that Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe, a younger sister of the celebrated Modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe, was also an artist. Eclipsed by her brilliant sibling, Ida seemed destined for permanent obscurity until Canterbury, struck by the lighthouse…
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