January 17th: Santa Fe -Part 2 ~ Georgia O'Keffee Museum

Purple Hills - Ghost Ranch 2

Saturday January 17th:  The Georgia O'keffe Museum

Below is a grouping of photographs and painting we viewed while visiting the Museum.  Luckly I was able to photograph much of the collection as long as I did not use flash.  There were quite a few rooms that photography was not permitted.  I need to do a little more research to find the names of a few of the paintings that I have not titled. 

It is a remarkable collection of both her paintings and of photographs of her taken by her very close confidants.

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Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism.

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The Museum

Plaque on the sidewalk
outside the Museum

Photograph:  Her view of Ghost Mountain from her studio

The above right painting is very interesting in that the guide at the Museum told us that Ms. O'Keffe saw a river from from above as she was flying over the area and decided to paint the river from that perspective.  I had thought it was a tree.

Being from the coast, I fell in love with 

the simplicity of her painting of a boat!

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We ended the day in Santa Fe driving around town before heading back to witness the beautiful sunset outside Diana and Rogers home in Albuquerque.

Chair nailed to tree!  ??

Pretty scenery on our way back to Albuquerque

and from the side of her home

Sunset view in front of Diana's front yard
of the Sandia Mountain