Wagner's film traces O'Keeffe's journey from Midwestern roots through the New York avant-garde and into the New Mexican desert, weaving through it a persistent and very American anxiety: the question of cultural identity. What is American art? What is American? It is a concern that feels more urgent in the United States than perhaps anywhere else. I had assumed this preoccupation belonged in the 1800s, in times of the Centenary, the Gilded Age. But it seems the quest carried