Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Silkscreen print of a desert horizon with a large cloud rising in the sky above. The entire piece is composed in shades of bright orange and fluorescent golden red. 'Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country' is at the top and the O'Keeffe Museum logo is at the bottom along with 'Opening November 7.'

Opening November 7— “Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country”

The works of twelve artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos of Northern New Mexico come into dialogue with Georgia O’Keeffe’s art and personal objects.

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Small painting of red triangle of a barn above a sea of yellow wheat, in a blue sky filled with white clouds.

In 1928, Georgia O’Keeffe returned to her home state of Wisconsin for a few months. During this trip, the artist revisited the barns she had known in her youth.

O’Keeffe described the barns as "wonderful—not what is ordinarily called picturesque—They just seem alive all the way through."

Two people wearing dark jackets, one in profile, stand in front of a painting of soft clay hills of grey, black, and pink. Through the center a large stripe of black makes a V shape though the grey. Blended areas of pink on the grey are on either side of this V in the bottom half of the canvas.

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Vertical canvas with center stylized grey tree - limbs and trunk spreading out and upwards into reddish, grey and some greenish blended color of arching planes.

During the early 1920s, O'Keeffe spent many autumn months in Lake George, New York, painting the vibrant trees of the Adirondack mountains. This maple tree was a particularly favorite subject of O’Keeffe’s.

Photograph of a wall with a title "Making a Life" on a brown semi-circle with stitch-like designs. The wall opens up onto a room where a large painting of Mount Fuji in pink and white hangs under a row of skylights.

FINAL WEEKS–"Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life"

Don't miss your last chance to see the exhibition before it closes on October 19! Get tickets at gokm.org or at the link in our bio.

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A tree with silver limbs extends across the entire vertical canvas. The painting is filled with soft golden pigment and yellow paint evoking autumnal foliage.

Happy first day of fall! Kick off the season with this painting of a golden Birch tree. Soon, all the trees begin to resemble Georgia O’Keeffe paintings.

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Georgia O'Keeffe. Autumn Trees – The White Birch, 1924. Oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches. Private Collection. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum

Small pieces of paper painted with various shades of yellow and red paint. O’Keeffe has written notes on the upper portion of the color cards.

Beginning in the 1920s, Georgia O’Keeffe made small color cards as visual references when selecting her paints. Each card was a different shade, and many were inscribed with notes about the pigments.

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Have you seen our focused exhibition, ‘Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life,’ yet?

There are only a few weeks left to view the exhibition before it closes on October 19th. Don’t miss your chance to explore the many ways in which O'Keeffe was a maker.

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Georgia O'Keeffe. Untitled (Abstraction Blue Curve and Circles), 1970s. Watercolor on paper, 30 1/2 x 22 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.530]

A blue curved stroke, in the shape of a "?" with two blue circles beneath the curved stroke. Inside the curve are two blue circles. On top of the curve, are six blue dots. The immediate circle beneath the curve has four blue dots to its left and the subsequent circle has five blue dots to its right.

What does this painting remind you of?

In the 1970s, Georgia O’Keeffe found herself drawn back to spirals. This watercolor echoes the forms seen in her early abstract drawings, likely referencing the shape of her violin head.

Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe, The Black Place, 1944. gelatin silver print. Maria Chabot Archive. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.

Did you know Georgia O'Keeffe had cats?

In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz from 1944, O’Keeffe wrote, “We also got the cat—she is a very beautiful cat—dainty and beautiful—quite a dark Siamese—So now we have the cat.”

Two large swirling white flowers, one atop the other. The interior of the bottom flower is visible, yet the top flower is tilted upward hiding it's center. The two flowers fill the majority of the canvas, with a sliver of blue - perhaps an ocean horizon line along the top.

In 1939, O’Keeffe traveled to Hawai’i after accepting a commission to paint pineapple plants for the Hawaiian Pineapple Company (later Dole).

This trip proved immensely inspiring for O’Keeffe, who returned home with numerous paintings, including this one of a belladonna.

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Maria Chabot. Georgia O'Keeffe, Breakfast, The Black Place, 1944. contemporary photographic print, 5 x 7. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of Maria Chabot. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [RC.2001.2.97e]

Georgia O’Keeffe often took "motor outings," as she called them, packing her gear in her Ford and camping for several days.

In this photograph, O’Keeffe eats breakfast in the Bisti De-Na-Zin wilderness in the Navajo Nation, about 150 miles away from her home in Ghost Ranch.

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Georgia O’Keeffe. Lavender Hill with Green, 1952. Oil on canvas, 12 x 27 3/16 inches. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett Foundation and The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. [1997.5.10]

“All the earth colors of the painter’s palette are out there in the many miles of bad lands [sic]. The light Napes yellow through the ochres—orange and red and purple earth—even soft earth greens.” — Georgia O’Keeffe, 1939.

In her paintings of the New Mexico landscape, Georgia O’Keeffe recorded the brilliant colors of the high desert as she saw them. O’Keeffe spent hours, sometimes days, exploring the land by foot and automobile, looking for her next subject—red mountains, yellow cliffs, or purple hills.

Alfred Stieglitz. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait. 1929; Gelatin Silver Print. Image: 11.4 × 8.9 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.) Getty Research Institute. Object Number [93.XM.25.27]

Black and white photograph of Georgia O'Keeffe in a swimsuit and light shoes holding a towel and a brush. She is standing on a hill with a sky behind.

From 1918 until 1934, Georgia O'Keeffe spent part of each year at Alfred Stieglitz's family estate in Lake George, New York. In this portrait from 1929, Alfred Stieglitz photographed Georgia O'Keeffe in a swimsuit, ready for a dip in the lake.

Preserving Georgia O’Keeffe’s Personal Libraries - The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum For June’s Mornings with O’Keeffe program, join the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Assistant Librarian & Preservation Specialist, Bonnie Steward as she shares about the ongoing project…

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Georgia O'Keeffe. Untitled (Figure), 1916-1917. Graphite on paper, 3 3/8 x 2 7/8 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation. © Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. [2006.5.65] and [2006.5.66]

Graphite sketch of an abstract/half completed face. On the side of the face closest to the right side of the paper one eye and a line delineating the mouth contrast with the other side of the face which is blank. The curvature of the jaw is the focus of the drawing, it is the boldest and strongest line in the work.

Georgia O’Keeffe regularly experimented with abstraction and representation, finding different ways to paint or sketch the same subject. “It is surprising to me to see how many people separate the objective from the abstract,” she said. To O’Keeffe, “objectivity” and “abstraction” were intertwined.

The fruitful friendship of Alexander Girard and Georgia O’Keeffe Discover how famed Herman Miller textile designer Alexander Girard and Georgia O’Keeffe, who struck up a friendship in Santa Fe based on mutual interests and respect, inspired and influenced each othe...

Alexander Girard and Georgia O’Keeffe —Modernism’s kindred spirits.

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Unknown. Georgia O'Keeffe, 1940-1960. Gelatin silver print, 8 1/4 x 7 inches. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Museum Purchase. [2014.3.94]

Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe standing in the New Mexican landscape; profile view of O'Keeffe wearing a black head scarf, a black wrap dress over a white dress with desert grasses in foreground and mountains, sky, and clouds in background: arm is folded across waist while she looks forward with a small smile.

“—The mountain and the plain at its foot were all snowy this morning—When I look out at the windy snow I am glad spring is on the way in…” Georgia O'Keeffe wrote in a letter to Alfred Stieglitz postmarked April 22, 1944.

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O'Keeffe describes this painting as " just the arms of two red hills reaching out to the sky holding it." This painting can be viewed as an organic abstraction contemplating the intersection of an expansive flat of blue sky and the V shape of the sandy red hills below.

After she began her annual sojourns to New Mexico, the sky figured increasingly in Georgia O’Keeffe’s work. O’Keeffe described this painting as " just the arms of two red hills reaching out to the sky holding it."

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