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Dedicated to the life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe, the artist whose paintings of northern New Mexico's landscapes and desert imagery made her one of the most celebrated American modernists. The museum holds the largest collection of her work anywhere in the world.
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The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe is devoted to the art, life and independent spirit of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), one of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century. It opened on July 17, 1997, eleven years after her death, and it holds the largest single collection of her work and personal materials.
The museum was founded in November 1995 by philanthropists Anne Windfohr Marion and John L. Marion, part-time Santa Fe residents, and opened to the public in July 1997. It is a private, non-profit institution accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. The main Santa Fe building was designed by architect Richard Gluckman in association with the Santa Fe firm Allegretti Architects.
According to the museum, O'Keeffe made the first of many trips to northern New Mexico in the summer of 1929, and she made the state her permanent home in 1949; she died in Santa Fe in 1986. The high desert light, mesas and sky she painted there are the subject of much of what hangs in the galleries.
The museum's own materials describe a collection of more than 3,000 works, including 140 oil paintings and nearly 700 drawings by O'Keeffe, with the remaining works dating from 1901 to 1984, the year failing eyesight led her to stop painting. Other published descriptions count the collection differently, so treat any single total as approximate. Exhibitions present her work on its own or alongside American modernist contemporaries, and the Santa Fe galleries rotate featured works from the collection rather than presenting a permanent fixed display.
Past exhibitions have included Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle (2008), organized with the High Museum of Art, and Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction (2010), which later traveled to the Whitney Museum and the Phillips Collection.
The Santa Fe museum is only one part of the institution. In 2006 it took over care of O'Keeffe's home and studio in Abiquiu, on the Chama River roughly an hour north of Santa Fe. That house is a National Historic Landmark where she lived and worked, and it is the part of the story most visitors pair with the museum. The museum also cares for her first New Mexico home at Ghost Ranch, which is not open to the public.
The Research Center, opened in July 2001, houses offices for staff and fellows along with the Michael S. Engl Family Foundation Library and Archive. The library focuses on O'Keeffe, her contemporaries, regional history and Modernism, and it is used by appointment only.
Because the Santa Fe galleries rotate works, what you see will differ from one visit to the next; check the museum's website for the current exhibitions, hours, ticketing and any Abiquiu home tour reservations, since Abiquiu home visits are arranged separately from the Santa Fe galleries.
On a Voyzo private tour, your private vehicle and driver collect you door to door, so a museum visit in Santa Fe can be combined with a day trip north toward Abiquiu on your own schedule, rather than fitting a shuttle timetable. Confirm the specifics for your date with the museum directly.
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